Possible to make labels, rather than fields, blinking?

[mistercat]

Is it possible to just make the labels of a field blink?  How does one get at the properties to do that?  My boss is looking for something more subtle that blinking fields.

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i can only think that it can be programically done by changing color

[camerond]

(Darn it, I was playing around too long to get the first answer in.)

But, wouldn't the purpose of having something blink be to draw attention to it? Making a "subtle" blink seems counterproductive here.

However, if you're talking about a string or numeric indicator, you could use a property node in a loop to change the text colors periodically, instead of the background (this has the added advantage that you could change the frequency of the "blink" programatically, also).

Cameron

[mistercat]

I've found several examples of color change loops which seems to indicate that is the only way to do it.  Bosses want what bosses want.  I only get paid the medium bucks.

[mistercat]

Camerond, your example looks like a snippet but when I place it on the block diagram in a blank LV2013 VI, it appears as a label:

Http://forums.ni.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/124355i700733B2ED857A6F/image-size/original?v=mpbl...

[camerond]

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@mistercat wrote:

Camerond, your example looks like a snippet but when I place it on the block diagram in a blank LV2013 VI, it appears as a label:

Http://forums.ni.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/124355i700733B2ED857A6F/image-size/original?v=mpbl...

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How did you "place it on the block diagram"? You can't just copy and paste, you have to save the snippet as a PNG file and drag that onto a BD.

And, speaking of that, when I created that snippet, it seems to have gotten messed up saving it as the PNG. It won't work just as shown, the property nodes need to be directly from the numeric and slide indicators, not the generic nodes to the refnums. This time I'll just attach the VI.

Cameron