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LabVIEW UI
Tips and Tricks
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Before we begin… • Different tastes exist – our tips may not always
apply
• This presentation assumes a basic experience level
• Visit (and join) our UI Community Group to find:
– Part I of this presentation online
– Downloadable demos and examples
– LabVIEW users passionate about UI (who share)
decibel.ni.com/content/groups/ui
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Topics
• Brush Up: Introduction to UI Design Part One
• Giving your UI a Custom Look
• Organisation of Complex UIs
• Indicating Progress of Slow Operations
• Conclusion
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“Good artists borrow…
…great artists steal.”
– Pablo Picasso
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Sources of Inspiration • Apple
• Microsoft Office
• Applications on your own computer
• Icon galleries
• Web design tutorials
• Your corporate design team
• Photography, Art
• Books on:
– User interface design
– User interaction design
– Usability
– Graphic design
– Visualisation of information
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Three Commandments from Part One
I. Think About Your User
II. Don’t Be Innovative
III. Less Is More
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I. Think About Your User
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II. Don’t Be Innovative
• Use familiar elements
• Don’t change expected functionality
• Polish – don’t reinvent
System controls mimic common operating system controls and are familiar
to most users
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III. Less Is More
• Too much at once is distracting; err toward minimalism
• Stick to requirements
– Don’t do what isn’t necessary
– You’ll get done sooner
– It’ll cost you less to own it
• Focus should be on what’s important
– Example: Guide the user with colour…
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“It seems that perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to remove.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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The Cereal Box Effect:
Which cereal catches your eye
first?
Guiding the User with Colour
Why?
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Giving your UI a Custom Look
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UI Customisation Techniques
• Make default controls transparent
• Add an image via menu Edit » Paste
Front Panel Images and Decorations
• Use to customise cosmetics of controls and indicators
• Access via front panel right-click context menu Advanced » Customize
Custom Controls
• Use to customise the functionality or cosmetics of controls and indicators
• Access via menu File » New
XControls
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Adding an Image to the Front Panel
• As simple as Copy and Paste!
• Use an image editor to erase, add transparency
• Populate native LabVIEW controls
Start: PowerPoint Clipart Finish: Custom LabVIEW
UI
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Differences in the Control Editor N
orm
al F
ront
Panel
Contr
ol E
ditor
Win
dow
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When you should use Controls • To create cosmetically different, reusable controls
– Example: resizing a Stop button to make it easier to click
When you should use Type Defs • To automatically update data type in custom
controls
• Example: reusing an Enum whose values may change
When you should use Strict Type Defs • To create reusable controls that are identical copies
• Example: propagating changes to Gauge size and color
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Edit Mode vs. Customise Mode
Edit Mode
• Change size or color of a control or indicator
• Access a right-click shortcut menu
Customize Mode
• Make extensive changes to controls or indicators
• Change individual parts of a control or indicator
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Components of a Control (Slide)
Needle, Fill
and Scale
Digital
Indicator
Pixel
Decrement
Pixel
Increment
Cosmetic
Housing
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Components of a Control (Gauge)
Needle, Ramp and
Scale
Digital
Indicator
Extra Frame
Part
Housing
Frame
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Viewing Control Components
• View individual control components using menu Window » Show Parts Window
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CUSTOMISING A GAUGE CONTROL
Adding a Decoration and Custom Imagery to a Gauge Control
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When you should use XControls • To create reusable components with dynamic
behavior
• To encapsulate extended functionality or cosmetics
When you should not use XControls • To accomplish pure cosmetic changes
• When working on a single-shot application
Use Strict Type Defs instead when… • You do not need dynamic run-time and edit-time
behavior
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An XControl Example…
Design a thermometer control that can represent a
single numeric input in either Celsius or
Fahrenheit.
What makes this a good
application for an
XControl?
Note: This example XControl is pre-built as part
of the default LabVIEW Examples
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Example XControl Requirements
1. Thermometer must keep track of which temperature unit it represents
2. Thermometer must convert temperature between Fahrenheit and Celsius
3. Thermometer must represent a single numeric value and look (visually) like a thermometer.
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Using XControls
• Manage XControls via the Project Explorer
• XControls appear as regular terminals
• You start with shell code
Remember – you can go a long way without resorting to XControls
Termin
al View
Icon
View
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Structure of an XControl
XControl
Properties (Optional)
Methods (Optional)
Abilities (Mandatory)
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XControl Properties
• Allow the user to configure the XControl programmatically via Property Node
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XControl Methods
• Allow the user to engage functionality of the XControl programmatically via Invoke Node
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XControl Abilities
• Required components for proper function
• Represented by VIs or Controls
• Four mandatory abilities:
– Data
– State
– Facade
– Init
• Additional optional abilities may exist
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XControl Data Ability
• Type Definition Control
• Specifies the data type of the XControl
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XControl State Ability
• Type Definition Control
• Specifies information other than data type that affect the appearance of the XControl
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XControl Facade Ability
• Defines the appearance of the XControl
• Invoked after changes to Properties / Methods
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XControl Facade Ability
• Also invoked when:
• Data is written to the control
• Appearance needs updating
• Changing between Control and
Indicator
• Shortcut menu activates
• Short menu is selected
…and more
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XControl Init Ability
• Called upon first placement or load into memory
• Initialises display state before being displayed
• Handles control versioning
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CREATING AN XCONTROL Creating a Simple XControl from Scratch
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Gallery of Examples
Credit: Simon Hogg
NI Community UI Interest Group
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Gallery of Examples
Credit: Simon Hogg
NI Community UI Interest Group
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Gallery of Examples
Credit: Jonathan Cohn – Bloomy Controls
LabVIEW Example Code Contest 2010 UI Controls
Category Winner
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Importance of Visualisation Choices
UI “Signal to Noise Ratio:”
Which slide is more effective and why?
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Organisation of Complex UIs
• Use when controls don’t all have to be visible at once
• Limit to the number of tabs you can gracefully use
• Loads all controls into memory at once
Tab Control
• Use to dynamically decide which controls to display
• No limit to the number you can gracefully interact with
• You control when the VI is loaded or release from memory
Category and Content View using SubPanels
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Using a Tab Control
1. Add to front panel
2. Customise tab control
3. Populate with controls
• More flexible than most people realize
– Transparent tabs
– Vertical tabs
– Tabs with images
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Example Tab Control Application Using LabVIEW to mimic NI DIAdem, software that outshines Excel for data
postprocessing
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CUSTOMISING A TAB CONTROL
Disguising a Tab Control with Transparent or Image Tabs
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Using a SubPanel
1. Determine higher level VI screen real estate
2. Develop size appropriate, modular SubVIs
3. Dynamically Run SubVI
4. Dynamically insert SubVI into subpanel
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SUBPANEL OPTIONS DIALOG
Displaying Subpanels based upon User Selections
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Gallery of Examples
Credit: Simon Hogg
NI Community UI Interest Group
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Indicating Progress of Slow Operations
• Splash screens are effective when applications have a long load time
– Provide development and support information
• Busy cursors
• Progress bars
For tips on using busy cursors, view Part I of this presentation available on the NI Community UI Interest Group site
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SPLASH SCREEN DEMO Using an Event Structure to Create a Splash Screen
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Gallery of Examples
Sine Wave
Tester Version: 1.0.32 Author: Derrick
Snyder
For Support, Please Visit: http://www.ni.com/
Framework Credit: Mark Ridgley, Logic PD
NI Developer Community
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Key Take-aways
• Don’t be innovative
• Less is more
• Think about your user
• Customise controls using Control Editor
• Encapsulate functionality via XControls
• Clean up your front panels with tabs, subpanels
• Disguise load times using splash screens
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Learn and Share – UI Interest Group
decibel.ni.com/content/groups/ui
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Certified LabVIEW Developer
Exam
Certified LabVIEW Architect
Exam
Certified LabVIEW Associate
Developer Exam
Developer Senior Developer Software Architect
/ Project Manager
NI Certifications Align with Training
"Certification is an absolute must for anyone serious about calling himself a
LabVIEW expert... At our organisation, we require that every LabVIEW
developer be on a professional path to become a Certified LabVIEW
Architect."
- President, JKI Software, Inc.
Managing
Software
Engineering
in LabVIEW
LabVIEW
OOP Advanced
Architecture
LabVIEW
Core 3
LabVIEW
Core 2
LabVIEW
Core 1
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How do I go further? • Reading
• decibel.ni.com/content/groups/ui
• Learn more
– LabVIEW Advanced Architectures
• Talk to your
– Local Engineer
– The UI group online
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