scrollbar control in Labview

[alias10]

Is there any way to make a scrollbar control other than using the activeX control Microsoft Forms 2.0 Scrollbar?

[Oleg]

Hi,
What about slides from "Control/Numeric" or "Control/Classic controls/Numeric" palettes?

Oleg Chutko.

[alias10]

yes, but the functionalities are not quite the same.
1) I would like to define the size of the slider.
2) When I click above the slider (for instance), the new value of the control has to be incremented by a specified value, and not just jump to the value corresponding to the mouse position.

[Zvezdana S.]

You can define the size of the slide programmatically, by using the size property.
To change the way the slide increments/decrements, you need some more programming.
I have included the VI, that will change the current value of the slide depending on what you select on the bottom edge of the slide (I used Booleans for this). If the value selected is greater than the current value of the slide, the two will be added to give the new slide value.
If the value selected is smaller than the current slide value, it will be subtracted.
If the two values are the same, the slide value will stay the same.
The VI was build in LabVIEW 6i.

Zvezdana S.
National Instruments

[alias10]

Thank you Zvezdana for your vi. I have a few comments:
1) It is true that I can use a property node to adjust the size of the slide housing, but I cannot adjust the size of the slider itself (like scrollbars), or at least I didn't find the way to do it.
2) An other way to do it is to use the scrollbar of the multicolumn listbox. The scale is defined with the number of rows and the size of the housing is adjusted with the cell height. The size of the slider is then adjusted automatically. The only "cosmetic" problem is that I cannot reduce the width of the listbox in order to keep only the scrollbar.

Roland

[rdrago]

LabVIEW 8.0 includes custom scroll bar controls that you can add to controls that have scrollable data.