get rid of caption shadow in tab control

[rickford66]

Hello,

I'm using LV7.0 on W2K and have run into a difficulty.  Often times, when I need some front panel text to be changed programmatically, I will put a control or indicator off to the side (out of sight), and use its caption as the label.  This prevents me from having to figure out how to get a reference to a real label... that's always been a pain.  I just use a property node to change the caption text.  My problem is, for the app I'm currently working on, I need to use a tab control.  If I put the label (caption ) in the tab control, it hovers over, displaying a shadow under it.  This does not happen if the control is also in the tab control, only when the control is not in the tab control.  Is there a way to make this behaviour stop?

Thanks.

Rick

[aeastet · Accepted solution]

It is going to do that. THat was the way it was made to show you that it is not inside the tab control. You should notice however that when you start your program that the shadow will go away. The shadow is there when you are programming.

[rickford66]

Ah yes, it does dissappear.  Thanks.  I didn't notice that.

[rickford66]

Oops, I spoke too soon about it being solved.  When I run it, the shadow does dissappear, however, the text does not switch with the tab.  I assume this is because the text is not really in the tab, as I can place controls in each tab and they switch with it as they should.  My question is, is there an easy way to put a label in there that will switch with the tab?  I don't need any controls or indicators in there... just text.  Thanks.

[aeastet]

You will have to look for the tab change event signaling to pick up the change for the tab or you will have to handle the caption naming a different way. I got it to work in this example that I put together. If I click the boolean I can see the caption change no matter what tab I am on. See the attached simple example.

[rickford66]

I will keep that in mind if I can't find an easier solution.  It seems like there should be a simple solution to this.  I'll never understand why the folks at NI never thought to include a plain old text label on the controls palette.

[rickford66]

Oops, almost forgot.  Thanks for the help.  :O)

[aeastet]

You can place a string on each page and send the text to every string.

You could put the string outside of the tab control and change the text when you change the tab.

[elset191]

Use the string from the classic pallete.  You can make all the border stuff transparent like you want, then you can just write to the indicator directly.

[rickford66]

Got it.  Thanks alot.  That's exactly what I was looking for.