Can you programmatically change a picture control frame/border

[Hummer1]

On another thread a minute ago I saw a reference to the fact that the Foreground and Background color of a Decoration can bechnaged using a property node....

Hummer1

[Ben_01880]

Hummer

When I place a decoration on my Front Panel an then flip to

 the block diagram, there is no object and hence no way

of creating a property node.

[Ben]

frameless picture over frameless picture then.

Cludge?

If it ain't built in you have to get creative.

Ben

[elset191]

frameless picture over color box control?  The color constant in the classic pallette does not have a border around it.

Message Edited by elset191 on 12-03-2009 02:15 PM

[Hummer1]

I think it went something like this .... This vi... reference then per this thread...use the colors/FG or Colors BG to set the color.

http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&message.id=408888&query.id=344748#M408888

Hummer1

[Ben]

Hi Hummer,

Yes that will work as well. The only complicatin with decorations is you can't right clcik and craete a porperty node or even name them. So we have to resort to which index for that decoration which is not to complicated unless you have more than one decoration and by the way their order is determined by there drop on the FP order and it someting get deleted then indexes shift so...

Tim's color box idea is good.

Ben

Message Edited by Ben on 12-03-2009 02:21 PM

[Hummer1]

Pickey...Pickey...

If it was easy we would all work for NI.

Hummer1

[Darin.K · Accepted solution]

What I am about to suggest may be too radical for your use, but it comes from years of delving into the inner workings of the Picture Indicator along with an in-depth knowledge of property nodes, scripting and Xcontrols.  Now that you are prepared, I suggest that you draw a rectangle around the perimeter of your picture and use the color of your choice.

[Ben_01880]

Hummer & Ben

I my application I have from 1 to 24 picture controls that get moved, resized, content changed

and hidden or shown. Would I be able the do these operation with method?

[Ben]

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Darin.K wrote:
What I am about to suggest may be too radical for your use, but it comes from years of delving into the inner workings of the Picture Indicator along with an in-depth knowledge of property nodes, scripting and Xcontrols.  Now that you are prepared, I suggest that you draw a rectangle around the perimeter of your picture and use the color of your choice.

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That was one of the other ideas I had but held my hand since it would complicate the draw. Performance wise that is about the best approach since there is no overlap of objects.

Ben