How do I make my own input prompt window?

[NI_user_student]

Hello fellow engineers!
I need some help. I would like to make my own input prompt window that would ask for three inputs

User name(string input)
Password (string input-password format)

Change password? (boolean input)

I tried using the 'prompt user for input' vi. It is a very elegant solution but, I'm not able to star the password field. The datatypes for the fields posssible are limited to numeric,string and checkbox.
If I try to change the string field to string-with-password format by looking into the block diagram, I loose the elegant configuration dialog box.
I would like to know how I can make my own dialog box prompting a user for inputs in the same style in which the 'prompt user for input' vi works. More specifically, I would like to know how I can open only a small part of the front panel containing the dialog input fields as the running front panel and not the whole front panel so that it looks like a dialog box rather than the front panel of a VI opening to full window size and running.

I await useful  suggestions and insights from all of  you.
I thank you for all your help so far! : )

Aparna.

Student, Germany.

[becktho]

Hi

Just make your own vi and resize the front panel. If you save a vi, it will use the same front panel size as it was saved with, unless you modify the size programatically.

Thomas

[Dennis_Knutson]

Another way is to simply modify the Prompt User for Dialog VI. Right click on the Express VI and select Open Front Panel. You've now converted it to a regular VI and you can change the string control you want to Password Display.