Cluster Appearance On Front Panel

[NahoY]

Hi all!

One thing has been bugging me about LabVIEW for quite some time now and I finally want to post a question about this...
Does anybody know a quick and easy way to change the appearance of a cluster or even an array on the front panel?  Basically, I want to use arrays and clusters in my front panel because they are very handy on the programming point of view... but they look awful on the front panel!!  I know two ways of solving this:

1. Add the controls seperatly on the front panel and bundle them in the block diagram  (best way obviously, until you have 5-6-7 or 8 controls to bundle, then it becomes a mess)
2. Create a cluster of the mentionned controls and modify their appearance (Advanced -> Customize...)  (Becomes a pain when you have to change computers because of resolution and different desktop themes)

I think it would be smart for LabVIEW to have options for clusters and arrays to appear as one or to appear as a normal control.  Does anyone get my point?

Thanks

Yohan

[tst]

You can make both completely transparent.

For the background, you simply color it using the T color (for the array you need to do this before you put in your control).

For the frame, you need to right click it with the color tool to get the color dialog, then press F or B (or space) to toggle between editing the FG and BG color. This will allow you to color the frame transparent. Note that this is actually mentioned in the bottom of the color dialog, but no one ever sees it.

[NahoY]

Whoa!!  I've been using LabVIEW for years and never saw that.... I should have asked before and saved myself hours of headaches....

Thanks a bunch tst

Yohan