Hi, everyone;
I have been asked to make a bit of labview software to simulate the operation of a turbine based system. this needs to look good for a public display. I need to show the flow of various quantities (fuel, water, electricity) between components of the system.
Currently I am using fill slider controls to make a series of moving "blocks" to represent this flow along the pipes/wires. this looks OK, but for some reason causes the program to run very slowly when there are more than a couple of flows haappening (I need 10 fill slider bars each with 6 fill sliders all constantly moving to create a decent visualisation).
It is probably running slowly because that is not what the fill slider controls were designed for, but does anyone know a better way? the program needs to go onto a tablet for demonstration and this runs much slower than my development laptop, enough to make it not look so good.
Is there a more efficient way to display this within labview? Can i import an animated GIF or such and control its running within labview, or is there a better type of control or indicator that will run faster? Any advice appreciated!
Mark.