Clusters: How to remove the 3D shaded background?

[Skinny]

I'm currently building an automated test and cal setup using labview. Here I have loads of input fields and indicators that causes a sea of variables. That sea has now turned into an overwhelming ocean that is anoying to rok with. Whenever I insert a local varable has to slect which item the var should point to the list is two screen heigths long. To avoid this I've decided to group them in clusters. however hee I've encountered something very anoying: I do not want the 3D shading (like a an engraved area) around my fields that make up the cluster. Howe do I make a plain background? I've looked everywhere (at leat that's what I think) but can't find out how to change it. I refuse to believe that I have to settle with
an ugly layout with loads of ingoing shaded boxes around my fields.

Hope that somebody outthere can help me.


Cheers,
Martin

[Ben]

Use the cluster container from the clasic palette and make the border transparent.

See attached.

Ben


Ben Rayner
Certified LabVIEW Developer
www.DSAutomation.com

[Skinny]

Hmm... that is simple! Thanks!


- Martin

[chutla]

Most things in Labview ARE, if you know where to look 🙂 By the way, in case your input clusters STILL seem too crowded, you can change the size of the windows with custom tools...also, changing the fonts in the boxes can do wonders for visibility on a crowded monitor. Grouping by color background is a big help too. Also, be sure you have your display set for the maximum resolution and color depth possible. If you end up staring at your VI for a long time, it really can make a difference.

Just a few hints from the peanut gallery!

Eric

[Skinny]

Hmm... when coming into work this morning and fiddling around with clusters again I found out that I cannot find the "Border transperant" option myself. It works fine when copying your cluster - but I would like to be able to make the border transperant myself.

My guess would be that I should do it via Proporties or Visible Items... but here the option is not listed.


- Martin

[Skinny]

...and also I would like to make the background of the cluster transperant

[Chris_de]

Just use transparent as fore - and background color. It is marked in color palette with s "T".

Cheers Chris

[Ben]

Paint brush tool

[Chris_de]

Exactly..forgot to mention

[Greg_McKaskle2]

> ..and also I would like to make the background of the cluster
> transperant

As others mentioned, tab to or use the tool palette to select the paint
brush. Right click on the border or background, whatever you are trying
to recolor. Move the mouse around the color picker. If the object can
be colored transparent,the upper right will contain a T for transparent.
some things, like the background of a window cannot be transparent and
there will be an X there instead.

The color picker lets you specify a foreground and background color at
the same time. On some objects, it is rare for the color to be changed,
so it will default to only one color. Other objects only use one color
and ignore the other. Other objects are
really just shading and ignore
all colors except for Transparent and non-transparent. For these
objects, hit a key to toggle the color picker between FG, BG, and both
color picking modes.

Greg McKaskle