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Turn off shadow of layered items in front panel

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Is there a way to disable the shadow that is cast by the top item if items are layered on the font panel?  In my case, I have a custom radio button control. I want to display a status indicator on each of the buttons. The way I planned to do this was to place the indicator on top of the button and create an event for mouse down on each indicator. However, this doesn't seem to be an option due to the shadows. Is there a way to disable the shadows or a way to insert indicators into custom radio buttons? Thanks.

 

 

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The shadow is just at edit time to show the developer that the control is on top of for example a tab.   The shadow goes away at runtime

 

to preview the runtime look you can press ctrl+M to toggle between edit time view and runtime view

 

you can still place an indicator on top of the button as you are describing

- James

Using LV 2012 on Windows 7 64 bit
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You might also find that the shadow will vanish if you group the layered items (and you might want to do that anyway so that you don't accidentally move only one layer).

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