C# Decorations

[Grant_LECO]

Are there any plans to provide Measurement Studio for .NET programmers decorations similar to what CVI has?  I really enjoy adding decorations to my CVI GUI's and there aren't any that I've found in C#. 

Thanks,

Grant

[~jiggawax~]

Hi Grant,

Which decorations are you looking for.  It seems that C# has a lot of native controls that accomplish the same thing.  There is not immediate proposal to add these features to Measurement Studio.  You can submit a product suggestion for this if you would like: http://digital.ni.com/applications/psc.nsf/default?openform

Regards,

[Grant_LECO]

Thanks for the reply Sam,

I'm looking for decorations like the CVI Decoration->Vertical Smooth Box that I can put behind controls to make them stand out.  I'm still very much at the beginning stages of working with C# so if the control to do something like that is right in front of me I wouldn't be surprised.  If you could suggest which native controls do something similar I would be grateful.  Currently I only see the group box that I used in MeasurementStudio for Visual C++ 6.0 to  distinguish sets of controls since I didn't know of any decorations in that environment either.

Also, what happened to the NI Toggle Button in C#?  I used it for all my pass fail indicators in VC++ 6.0.  I can create something similar using a regular C# Button and having a function set it to Green on pass or Crimson on fail but I liked the visual aspect of the Toggle Button at design time. 

In the past you have had really good reasons to remove things from one platform to the next so I'm thinking that I'm just missing something here.  Maybe there is a native control to do exactly what the Toggle Button does for me at design time?  If so, please let me know about that as well. 

It's the NI visual enhancements that I use more then anything else.  At least I have up until now.

Thanks,

Grant

[~jiggawax~]

Hi Grant,

So you could throw down a panel and change the background image to a snapshot of the decorations.  Kind of a pain but you'll get the desired behavior.  We don't have the decorations in Measurement Studio.  I haven't found anything in VS native controls either.  That's not to say that they don't exist. 

The switch is the closest to the toggle button.  You can change the look of it in the properties.  However, true, it is not the toggle button you see in CVI this is because VS already has the button with all the capabilities.

Hope this helps,