topic Re: greying out is the wrong colour in LabVIEW

greying out is the wrong colour

Tom WP — Tue, 06 Aug 2002 14:38:23 GMT

Hi,
I am using the grey-out option for all controls on a front panel. The problem is that the grey is the wrong grey, around each control appears a light grey box. The boxes highlight the layout of the front panel and make it look a mess. Is there any way i can correct the colour so that no box appears i.e. only the control is grayed out.

Re: greying out is the wrong colour

vt92 — Tue, 06 Aug 2002 17:05:53 GMT

Tom-

I couldn't re-create your problem, but my guess is that it is one of two possibilites:

1.) Your display adapter is set to 256 or less colors and the background color doesn't match the control colors.

2.) You need to set the background color on the controls to transparent.

Hope that helps....

Re: greying out is the wrong colour

storeyk — Wed, 07 Aug 2002 09:11:09 GMT

I see what you mean!

Change the grey of the front panel slightly to:
Hue 160, Sat 0, Lum 177, Red 188, Green 188, Blue 188

Or alternatively place the controls on a Raised box in decorations.

If you want colours though, you may have problems!

Kim

Re: greying out is the wrong colour

Ben — Wed, 07 Aug 2002 12:08:50 GMT

Do the "boxes" go away when you run the VI?

Ben

Re: greying out is the wrong colour

Mike — Wed, 07 Aug 2002 20:05:56 GMT

This grey out color uses the background color of the front panel. If you
want to change it you will have to adjust the BG color of your front panel
to the grey out color you need. If this screws up other colors then you
need to use big decoration behind everything to set the color you need
behind all your controls.

Mike

"Tom WP" wrote in message
news:50650000000800000054550000-1027480788000@exchange.ni.com...
> Hi,
> I am using the grey-out option for all controls on a front panel. The
> problem is that the grey is the wrong grey, around each control
> appears a light grey box. The boxes highlight the layout of the front
> panel and make it look a mess. Is there any way i can correct the
> colour so that no box appears i.e. only the control is grayed
out.

Re: greying out is the wrong colour

JRA — Wed, 07 Aug 2002 22:37:05 GMT

How are you choosing to grey it out? Are you disabling the controls, making them invisible, etc? Are you doing this at run-time or during development?

Re: greying out is the wrong colour

Tom WP — Thu, 08 Aug 2002 13:03:31 GMT

The indicators are greyed-out using the indicators properties -> disabled = 2. The problem is in the run time environment.

Re: greying out is the wrong colour

storeyk — Thu, 08 Aug 2002 13:38:28 GMT

I have included an example (in LV 6.0) to illustrate my answer above.

Kim

Re: greying out is the wrong colour

JRA — Thu, 08 Aug 2002 15:25:48 GMT

I've set up a similar program, and it seems to run fine. I don't see any boxes around the controls. Could you attach an example so that I could try it on my own machine?

Re: greying out is the wrong colour

Labviewguru — Thu, 08 Aug 2002 19:20:12 GMT

Tom,

It just occurred to me that there is another option that you should consider, as it appears that you may have a hardware compatability issue, or software issue that cannot be solved.

A workaround is to disable using mode 1, and simultaneously change the control colors to those that you wish. This will cancel out any problems you are having and allow you to completely customize the disabled appearance. The disabled and greyed option was put in for convenience (I have to believe) to allow a simple method for changing the appearance of the control when disabled. As you situation demands a different solution, you will have to customize the appearance, and use the Disabled option.

Good luck.

Re: greying out is the wrong colour

eh — Thu, 08 Aug 2002 20:00:57 GMT

I have seen this whenever you have the control over certain decorations. If this is the case, try changing the background. I have also seen a lot of problems when using 256 colors.

Re: greying out is the wrong colour

storeyk — Mon, 12 Aug 2002 08:03:21 GMT

As i said i have the same glitch and by doing the above i get round it and it doesn't bother me. However, i have LV 6.0.2 installed on another machine and it does not have the glitch at all. It has the same version of LV, and the same number of colours for the display (16 bit). Obviously different graphics cards, etc. (no system conflicts and both working perfectly), but also different operating systems. The pc without the glitch is running Win 2K, and the one which has the glitch is running Win 95. As i said, it's not a problem for me, and i prefer to run Win 95 fast than a slow Win 98 (for those about to raise eyebrows!). But i thought you may be interested in this observation.

Kim