the meter (rotary control), how the scale can have color ramp, red on both ends

[Mesay]

Hi,

how can you have the color ramp on the scale of a meter (rotary indicator) to be red on both ends and green in a middle. i have tryed every possibility and i can only make it red only on one end. if anybody have any idea how to make it red on both ends, that will be a huge help. thanks

[smercurio_fc · Accepted solution]

You need to fiddle with the markers. It's not completely intuitive. You need to first turn off interpolation of the color ramp. Then you need to set the markers to arbitrary spacing. Then you can right-click on each marker and set the color within that section. Here's a page in the LabVIEW Help: http://zone.ni.com/reference/en-XX/help/371361B-01/lvhowto/changingthecolorsofacramp/

See attached example (LV 8.2) for a result.

[Dennis_Knutson]

You can also write to the Scale.MarkerVals[] property. It's an array of clusters where the first element defines the marker and the second element defines the color value.

[Mesay]

Thank you very much it worked

[Ljubo]

Hi,

a meter is a nice indicator. I always change its colors by setting two properties:  Scale.Interpolate Color and Scale.Marker Values[].

LV 9.0 example is attached.

[ScottC.]

Ljubo,

I love this idea but I'm not really sure I know how everything works since I haven't done much with the property nodes before. Is there any way to save your .vi back to version 8.2 so that I can access it?

[Ljubo]

Hi Scott,

I'm sorry but front panel screenshot is everything I can do now.

Regards.

[ScottC.]

That helps a lot, thanks!