Replace a scroll-bar inside a graph object with a system scroll-bar

[TCPlomp]

I am tryin to create a system styled graph, replacing all the decoration with system decoration and other stuff, however one of the most convenient parts of a graph (the x-scale scroll-bar) cannot be replaced with a system one, since I cannot copy a system scrollbar onto the clipboard. Has anyone succeeded in doing so?

Ton

[SimonH]

I haven't been able to figure out how to replace components within a compound component such as a graph either.

The best approach I could think of would be creating an XControl and using distinct controls and property nodes but that would be significantly more work.

[Matthew_Kelton]

I think this came in one of the 8.x versions.  I had some serious issues with control customization that was lost between 7.1 and 8.x.  Sometimes I have to make the control in 7.1 and hope 8.x doesn't screw up the import (it does sometimes).  Attached is an XY Graph and a Waveform Graph which has everything (I think) converted to a system style.  I did this several years ago, so you may wish to confirm the buttons for the tools are truly system and not just bitmaps.

[TCPlomp]

HI Matthew,

this looks impressive:

On windows XP, could you tell how you achieved the replacing of the buttons and scrollbar?

Ton

[Matthew_Kelton]

Ton,

I am having trouble figuring out how I did the scrollbar, so it may take me a little while to figure it out again.  If I realized I was performing a minor miracle, I would have documented it.

For the buttons, they aren't too difficult.

1. Drop a standard graph on the front panel and customize it.
2. Change to Customize Mode in the control editor
3. For the Scale Legend:
4. • Select any of the buttons.
     
   • Goto Edit->Customize Control...
   • Customize it to your liking
   • Replace the orginal control.
   • Repeat for the other buttons
5. For the Graph Pallette:
6. • Select one of the buttons
   • Use the context menu to modify the images.  These are the buttons you may have trouble with following theme color changes.  I basically did some image editing to get the pictures "right".

If I can figure out what I did for the scrollbar, I will let you know.

[Matthew_Kelton]

Christtian helped me figure out how I managed to do it - I didn't!  The classic graphs use a system scrollber for the X scrollbar.  So I must have started with that and never changed the scrollber.  It is interesting that the scrollbar for the new Plot Legend is the 3-D scrollbar (even in the classic control).

I did see that the buttons in the Grpah Pallette are not safe when the theme is changed since I can't customize them as booleans and can only replace the images.