How Do I create a transparent application window

[Kirkland]

How do I create a transparent application window? For example, if I create a simple application with only a round dial, and a stop button, when I run it, I only want to see the dial and stop button, not the grey (or whatever color) background.

Kirk
bdtech@cox.net

[Mads]

G Toolbox gives you this functionality (and a lot of other nice ones), it's shareware.

You can find it at http://www.geocities.com/gzou999/index.html

[Kirkland]

Thanks for the tip about G toolbox, and I did find the vi you mentioned, however, it makes the entire window transparent. Using my original example of a simple vi containing a dial and stop button, this Vi makes everything transparent (including the dial and stop button). What I want to do is make the background of the application transparent and have the dial and stop button opaque. Is there a way of doing this?

Kirkland.

[zou]

You probably picked up a wrong VI, or miscalculated the coordinates.

To change the shape of the window, you've to define an opaque region. For single elliptic window, you can use "Window - O.vi". For complicated window, use "Combo Window.vi".

It probably has some coordinate-convert involved. It'll be easier to put your window at top-left corner of the screen for the first try.

George Zou
http://gtoolbox.yeah.net