How to create an invisible tab control

[Ken_Brooks]

In his excellent book, The LabVIEW Style Book, Peter Blume advocates the use of an "invisible tab control". His front panel, while consisting of a large tab control with several headings that can be clicked, shows absolutely no framing around those headings or around the control as a whole. I have not been able to do it. Except: just now, while clicking around with the color tool, I did it by accident. The entire frame of a "Modern" Tab Control vanished, leaving nothing but the page titles showing! But I don't know what I did, and I cannot do it again. Please, how do you do that?

[zilla]

Under tools, set your brush to transparent, and then click the tab control.

[Spectre_Dave]

For an interesting look.

Use a Classic Tab control - set the background to Transparent and the foreground to BlacK.

[_Ian_]

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@zilla wrote:

Under tools, set your brush to transparent, and then click the tab control.

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To add to this - transparency is found by clicking the ' T ' in the top right of the colour dialog box.

As an extra (I know it was a while before I discovered this), to get the colour palette up, do a 'shift right click' on the front panel and then click on the paintbrush at the bottom of the pop up menu. Now right click on the front panel object you wish to change.

To get back to the auto-tool (or other cursor of preference) do another 'shift right click' and select the required cursor (auto tool is the spanner/screwdriver thingy at the top).

[leumaseoj]

hi,

in front panel -->  press "shift" and right click. and you will get color control.

Then select the last option. that is brush.

right click the object you want to make it invisible. then go to "T" in the top. then press "SPACE BAR" in your keyboard. then you can find the bottom of the pallet. there will be a big " T". Befor that there was 2. now only one. It means fore color ang back ground color. it will make the complete control. invisible.

Check it out...

<<Kudos are welcome>>

[_Xilinx_]

Could someone explain me how I can make the tab-control in attached VI transparent.  I don't succeed with the above mentioned steps...

My Tab-control can not be colored in any color (and also not transparent)

Thanks in advance...

(Note: this is a System Tab control and not the classic one!  The classic can be colored transparent...)

[Strokes]

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@_Xilinx_ wrote:

Could someone explain me how I can make the tab-control in attached VI transparent.  I don't succeed with the above mentioned steps...

My Tab-control can not be colored in any color (and also not transparent)

Thanks in advance...

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Without looking, I'd say you've select a tab control from the System palatte, you can't change the colour of System controls.

Try creating a tab from the Modern or Class palattes as users above have suggested

[JÞB]

System controls are defined by the OS.  There may be a way to hack the system settings but I don't recommend triing and it wouldn't deploy very nicely... You would apply the change to every panel on the machine.... That could produce "Unusual" results.  If you do go that route make sure you get into the witness protection program right away before someone comes to track you down with blunt torture instruments while foaming at the mouth.