Front Panel Design

[govindsankar]

Hi,

I have attached a front panel design for my new software. As you can see I have used rectangular box decorations to place the buttons and the description and also I coloured it blue. Now my doubt is this. When I tun the program I want it to be in a way that only the decoration part can be seen. Rest of the grey area I dont want it to be seen. I know we can go to VI properties and change the window run time position and set it to custom panel size with width and height. But if that is the only way then how do I get the width and height of the decorations. If there is another way kindly let me know. Thank you. 

[govindsankar]

Also, I could use feedback on the front panel design. Is the colour combination good or bad. Should I change it? Help on this will also be highly appreciated. 

[GerdW · Accepted solution]

Hi govindsankar,

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@govindsankar wrote:

When I tun the program I want it to be in a way that only the decoration part can be seen. Rest of the grey area I dont want it to be seen. I know we can go to VI properties and change the window run time position and set it to custom panel size with width and height. But if that is the only way then how do I get the width and height of the decorations. If there is another way kindly let me know.

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In the OpenG toolkit (or was it MGI?) there is a function to set the window size to the size of the decorations.

You just need to startup the JKI VIPM…

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@govindsankar wrote:

 I could use feedback on the front panel design. Is the colour combination good or bad. Should I change it? Help on this will also be highly appreciated.

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I don't like those "modern" style controls/decorations with that "3D effect" borders. And you don't see such decorations in any other "state of the art" applications: most now use a flat design, sometimes even without any borders.

What's the point of placing those decorations anyway?

You want to reduce the window size so the user only sees the "blue" area: just switch the FP background to a bluish color! When you still want some "splitter" elements: draw a simple "Thin line" decoration to separate those different parts of the UI!

Btw. in German it should be a "Prüfsystem" (with a U-umlaut)…

[govindsankar]

It was part of OpenG toolkit. Thank You.