XY Graph Extensions - Open Source project

[Mike_King]

Hi people,

Many people ask about extending some of the the LabVIEW graphs with better cursors and other tools.  I've started an open source project to do just that and its got some simple to use examples for Cursors, BGK colors and max/min points already.  Hoping to add more, but wanted to extend the invite to the community for learning from this extension and adding ideas/code to it for making LabVIEW graphs more user friendly.  

Check out the project on github.  Its OpenSource Apache 2.0 license.  Its currently LV2015 in the repository.

https://github.com/unipsycho/Graph-Extensions-LabVIEW

[Blokk]

Interesting. But is there any special reason why the time scale increases from right to left?

[Mike_King]

nope. The timescale is certainly no factor in the graph extensions tools. 

[Mike_King]

Made some more progress to support range markers, you can see an example here and get the source from github link above.

[GerdW]

Hi Mike,

nice work!

It would be nice to provide a downconverted version on Git too.

Suggestion:

Your timestamp feature for cursors uses an "English" timestamp format (AM/PM), which is rather uncommon outside US and commonwealth countries.

Please provide an opportunity to make this user-configurable. And I recommend to use "%H:%M:%S" format string as default…

[Mike_King]

Good suggestion GerdW, the timestamp I have configurable for the cursors itself, but not on the axis yet.  Easy to add though. I may do a downconvert once this is further alone, but I hate developing in old LV versions so while its in heavy development, I'll stick to 2015, much faster to work in.  Thanks for the suggestion, I hope you can make use of it.  Feel free to contribute or add other ideas as well.

Thanks!