System horizontal progress bar cannot be customized

[_S_G]

I noticed that I cannot customize a system horizontal progress bar by going to right-click>>Advanced>>Customize.  When the control editor shows up, the customize mode button is grayed out. 

I can customize a numeric control or a string control using the above procedure, so why can't I do the same for a system progress bar?

Message Edited by S G on 10-01-2007 05:32 PM

[Gabi1]

system controls can generally not be customised, except for font and position of the label.

it is true you cannot even reach the customise menu with slides. my guess is it is because the control is a cluster of elements, unlike say a numeric.

[smercurio_fc]

Just to add as to the why: system controls inherit their visual appearance from the operating system, not from you. This is so they adapt to whatever operating system and theme is currently being used. Hence, the inability to customize system controls is by design.

[_S_G]

Yes.  It makes sense that the system controls are not customizable. 

However, I do have situations where I would like to customize the system controls.  For instance, with the slide control/indicator, when you make the digital display visible, it shows up in a box.  When your slide is a control, the right side of the box contains the increment/decrement buttons.  When your slide is an indicator, these buttons are invisible, but the the box is still big enough to include them.  So, the box on the slide indicator is unnecessarily big on the right side.  Take a look at the example.vi and you will see what I mean.

[Gabi1]

i feel your pain 😞 i wanted to do same kind of operations on other controls.

your only option out is to customise a normal (mordern) control, to make it look like a system one (say Win). but it takes enormous time.

we should ask NI to give out an option for a larger set of controls and indic that we could work with and customise (for example more "skins").