simulating forms on front panel

[Stephen Gray]

I'm trying to simulate a printed form on my front panel of my VI. Does
anybody know any tricks before I try the tedious line drawing and string
control obvious method???

thanks,
stephen

[Ben]

Did you concider using activeX to open the form in the app it was created in?

Ben

[Jared 323]

Can you scan an image of the form and display it as a bmp on the front panel,
then place string controls where you need them? It may help to get past
the tedious drawing part. i was able to drag and drop a .bmp image onto
the front panel without having to use a picture control. Then i placed a
string control over it. worked fine.

Jared

Stephen Gray wrote:
>I'm trying to simulate a printed form on my front panel of my VI. Does>anybody
know any tricks before I try the tedious line drawing and string>control
obvious method???>>thanks,>stephen

[Greg_McKaskle2]

> I'm trying to simulate a printed form on my front panel of my VI. Does
> anybody know any tricks before I try the tedious line drawing and string
> control obvious method???
>

If you have a scanned version of the form, you can import the
JPEG, BMP, or EMF. Then place real controls or indicators
over the fields that you want the user to be able to tab
to. Set up hot keys for F1 and such, then pretty late in
the game, color the fields transparent. Note that there are
often several parts that make up a control. Make sure to
color the inner and outer edges of the controls until it is
as transparent as you want. It also helps to start out with
the simple controls as they don't have things like inc/dec
arrows to get in the way.

Greg McKaskle