Question about adding logos to dashboard

[Matt_4505]

My rookie team has gotten off to a fast start working with LabView, and now with some down time, we were looking into ways to customize the Dashboard. We searched through lots of menus looking for ways to add our team symbol to Dashboard and have so far come up dry. I was wondering if anyone could walk us through how to add our team logo to Dashboard? Thanks.

[Kevin Fort]

To add icons to the dashboard you will need to build your own custom dashboard by creating a new dashboard project (this can be done from the Getting Started Windows in LabVIEW). You can then copy and paste images to the front panel of the VI.

For your dashboard to show up as the default one launched by the driver station you will need to built your dashboard into an .exe (this can be done under Build Specifications in the project) and place it in the default directory for the dashboard.

More general information on the dashboard and its use can be found here:https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-26296

[Greg McKaskle]

First, make sure that you create your own project with dashboard code. If you simply build it at this point, it is identical to the default dashboard.

Next, you open the Dashboard Main and you can paste controls, indicators, and pictures on the panel. You can typically just drag and drop images into the LabVIEW panel. You can also use the clipboard, but that often doesn't work as well for PNGs that have transparency. A third way is to go to the Edit Menu and choose Import Picture into Clipboard. This loads it into the inner LV clipboard and retains other image features. Once there, you can paste it where you need it.

Greg McKaskle

[Matt_4505]

Thank You!