splitter bar color not becoming transparent

[LVCoder]

Hi All,

I have a splitter bar in my vi which I want to set to Transparent at run time using its color property. However, if I set the color to Transparent, it becomes Black. All the other colors seems to be working fine, it seems this is only an issue when setting it to Transparent.

I am attaching my vi which demonstrate this problem. Could anyone please take a look at it and let me know if it is a bug in LabVIEW?

Thanks,

Ritesh

[Hooovahh · Accepted solution]

You cannot set a splitter color to transparent.  That would be like setting the pane to transparent.  There is nothing behind it.

The work around is you set the color of the splitter to the same color as the pane it is adjacent to.  You can also try to minimize the splitter size making it as small as 1pixel.  You cannot make it 0 in size.

EDIT:  Also set the style of the splitter to classic, this way there isn't the modern shadow and it will appear more invisible.