Property for color of Silver Control borders

[Hepcat]

I assume this property exists, but I can't seem to find it.  I have a silver string indicator, I want to change the color of the border to indicate different test states, green/pass, red/fail at least.

[Intaris]

Text:Color:Background or Foreground, I can't remember which.

Not Text:Text Color:Background or Foreground.

Hmm, I just checked, seems I was mistaken.  Sorry.  Can't find it at the moment either.

[paul_cardinale]

Some properties just aren't exposed.  For example the colors of the frames around the old classic controls:

There's no way to access them programmatically,

Every LV property has a unique 32-bit indentifier.  You can use that identifier to access the property.  None of the 4,294,967,295 codes yields access to the frame colors.

[tst]

If that's the case, you'll probably want to implement this by having a color box behind the control. Note that overlayed controls can sometimes cause performance issues.

[weitong]

Any directly solution now?

[zou]

Nothing has changed in the past 8 years.

You can't access the borders at runtime.

You have to customize your control to achieve the visual effect.

My favorite workaround is make the border transparent; use the caption instead.

You can resize the caption, and put it behind all components of your control.

[Mr._Jim]

Hmm... I'm trying to generate a UI programmatically.

I'm kind of baffled that there is no property for string control border colors or colors in general other than the text itself.

I guess I'll have to make a custom control and use its path as an input for "New VI Object."

It seems like such a trivial thing to want to do...

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