Am I way off here?

[Intaris]

I want to use this thread as a place to ask some questions where I'm not sure if they make sense or not.  Some of them might be possible Ideas for the idea exchange but sometimes I'm so caught up in my own way of thinking that I don't see the stupid ideas for what they are.

Input desired.

[Intaris]

I have often wished there was some easy way to have a method to add custom graphics or effects to a FP.  Having recently done some coding with the "Back" "Middle" and "Front" images for an XY graph control I wondered if similar functionality for a FP would be of interest?

I've long yearned for a kind of drawing canvas for the entire FP, but it doesn't currently exist.

[Yamaeda]

You can ofcourse drag a picture directly to the FP, but if you want it interchangable/configurable you'll need to place a big picture control. However, the idea of being able to link a picture as FP-background-property as an option instead of a solid color is quite nice. Also a color toning ...

/Y

[Thoric]

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@Yamaeda wrote:

You can ofcourse drag a picture directly to the FP, but if you want it interchangable/configurable you'll need to place a big picture control. However, the idea of being able to link a picture as FP-background-property as an option instead of a solid color is quite nice. Also a color toning ...

/Y

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Right click the horizontal slider of a Front Panel and select Properties. From there you can select a picture image as a background, set to either stretch, centre or tile.

[Thoric]

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@Intaris wrote:

I have often wished there was some easy way to have a method to add custom graphics or effects to a FP.  Having recently done some coding with the "Back" "Middle" and "Front" images for an XY graph control I wondered if similar functionality for a FP would be of interest?

I've long yearned for a kind of drawing canvas for the entire FP, but it doesn't currently exist.

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I very much wish for more enhanced/advanced methods for handling graphics in LabVIEW front panels. The currently available set of features are quite minimal when compared to other languages capable of creating GUIs.

[Intaris]

So do you guys reckon it's worth an idea?

I mean, I already made one WWAAYY back, but that doesn't seem to be doing too well.....

Shane.

[tst]

I personally don't understand either the original idea or what's suggested here.

[Thoric]

Read you IE post, not sure I absolutely get what you are asking for. Are you suggesting you want to be able to draw an image on the front panel, that may or may not be full panel sized, that kills any user clicks than are sent to it, that can be programmatically shown/hidden/changed? Does the picture control not do all this for you anyway? The image can be programmatically changed, it can be set to Disabled so that it cannot be interacted with, it can be made visible/invisible, and it would sit above any controls on the front panel making them inaccessible. All programmatically. Did I miss something?

[Yamaeda]

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@Thoric wrote:

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Right click the horizontal slider of a Front Panel and select Properties. From there you can select a picture image as a background, set to either stretch, centre or tile.

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Thanks, haven't noticed that. 😄 And with that information i could easily find the property node for inserting an image. 🙂

/Y

[tst]

Also, I think the discussion here shows quite clearly that a single thread won't work for more than one idea.