Can I choose a transparent background on a xy-graph > get image?

[Daniel Troendle]

When I use a on a xy-graph I can set the background color. Unfortunately it seems that color cannot be transparent, I guess because there's a maximum of 24 bit and no alpha channel or transparency color option.

On the other hand I'd like to overlay that xy-graph-picture over an existing picture with only grid, axis and graph but no background being plotted (because then I cannot see the old picture any more).

Setting the xy-graph bgcolor directly to transparent and putting the other picture underneath would be a fine thing but then I'd have to get the whole front panel image and that would make things *very* ugly for me.

Any idea how to get that going?

Thanks,
Dani
el Troendle

[Lab Viewer]

Hi Daniel,

try to use picture control in order to obtain the flexibility that you want.

I made a little VI just to show how it works (my VI is just writing a text over a picture).

good luck