Need to make picture with the ability of showing/hiding

[Err]

I need to put on FP the constant picture (from file) with the transparent background and the ability to be hidden when it is necessary. The first way that I tried was inserting picture in activex container. But, unfortunately, my jpg makes LV fall down Some other pictures (jpg, gif) did the same. By the way, what kind of activex object is produced when we insert into container picture from file?

[mfitzsimons]

Will this work for you?

Message Edited by mfitzsimons on 10-25-2006 07:08 AM

[Err]

thanx for reply. First of all, I need pic with the transparent backgroung. Can picture constant shows such pics? And whats about the frame? Can I make it invisible?

[mfitzsimons]

This is the easy way but you need transparent.  I have had issues trying to use transparent backgrounds in LabVIEW.

I found this on NI's site:

http://zone.ni.com/reference/en-XX/help/371361B-01/lvprop/subpanel_pnltrans/

http://zone.ni.com/reference/en-XX/help/371361B-01/lvhowto/creating_transparent_objec/

Let me know when you get a final solution.  It may be LabVIEW version dependent.

[Err]

Thanks a lot, the second link is useful. But how can I load a pic with the transparent background? Pictures in files with the extension jpg png and bmp doesn't support transparent colors.

[zou]

LabVIEW uses mask technique (Create Mask.vi) to achieve transparent.

George Zou

http://gtoolbox.yeah.net