Front panel appearance

[Trupke]

I recently received a commercial Labview program that controls a Silicon CCD camera. That Vi had a very nice brushed steel front panel appearance that I would like to use in other programs. The program uses a tab control. When I copy that Vi and modify it and then use it on my computer that works fine . However if I load it onto different Computers the pattern is gone and the font panel appearance chages to white.

Is there any elegant way to change the front panel appearance from a single colour to specific patterns?

[tst]

My guess would be that the tab used was a dialog tab (from the dialog controls palette). These controls change their appearance according to the OS settings, so you can move your program between different OSes and it will always look "right".
In order to get the same look you will have to change the OS display settings (if you're using windows, it's right click on the desktop>>Properties>>Appearance), but that would change the appearance of every other program running on the computer as well.

If you want to implement this on your own you can try placing images inside the tab, but that would probably look bad.

[absolutapa]

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[smercurio_fc]

To absolutapa: Are you advertising or something? If so, do it somewhere else.

I've seen you post this same exact message with this control attachment on other threads that were completely unrelated to the question being asked. For example, this thread was asking about buttons. This thread was asking about dynamic creation of LV2 globals. This thread was asking about timeouts. What does your control have to do with the questions being asked?