Thanks Mo!

Looking at these examples really helps me to learn how to work with these graphical components beyond what is available in the manual.

Can someone tell me if there is an easy way to limit the amount of characters entered into an edit box? And if so, can there also be a distinction between only accepting numerical vs alphabetical characters?

Does anyone know if it is possible to run a third party application such as Google Earth in a window within a Flowstone application? I have seen this done with Labview. It would be great to create a Flowstone module that launches the other application and displays it within the front panel gui as if ...

Thanks KG!

After playing with it for a few minutes, that's exactly what I needed.

Hi all,


Is there a module for entering typed alpha-numeric input from the front panel gui?

I would like to create a window in the front panel gui that I can type numbers or letters into so that I can apply that input to other code.

loopeytunes,

Thanks, that will help for one part of my application that goes from 0-30, but for another set of up/down buttons I have to go from 0-500 and if I speed it up I will loose the ability to set precise values on the way up or down.

What I need is for the speed to increase after holding ...

Does anyone have a good way of adding velocity control to up/down buttons?

I put together these up/down buttons with two digits of precision. However, if I press and hold to increment, it will take forever to get to a high value.

Since I am new to ruby, I was thinking that ruby used selectors like in objective-c and also confusing this with select case statements in visual basic. After further reading I now understand that "@selector" provided in tulamide's code is just an instance variable and could have been named anything.

tulamide,

I have searched through a few Ruby books for more information on selectors, but have not found anything. I have found a few references to selectors for objective-c and visual basic. can you provide a link to their description and use in Ruby?

Ok,
I used the code provided by tulamide and it works fantastically!! Although the method i had used worked, This is most definitely the proper method for doing this.

tulamide, thanks for the code and the instruction: "Never rely on a fixed interval to grab values!"
I am new to capturing data ...