Remove Shadow from Silver Control

[usrfrnly]

Every Silver control has a slight shadow on the bottom and right hand sides. It seems so simple, but I cannot figure out how to remove JUST the shadow from any silver control. When I go to customize the control, the shadow is part of the frame. I like the frame - this is why i am trying to use the silver controls and not just the older options - but I need to get rid of the shadow. Any ideas?

And, just for the record, I appologize if this is a duplicate but i couldn't find anything similar that wasn't talking about the black shadow you get from a floating control.

[aputman · Accepted solution]

Open the parts window and select the frame.  Right click and copy to clipboard.  Paste it into an editor (Gimp, etc).  Remove the shadow.  Make sure to add an alpha channel, otherwise you’ll have a white border where the shadow once existed.  Copy the image back to the clipboard.  Save the image to a PNG file, preserving the alpha channel.  In Labview, Right click the frame again and click “Import from Clipboard File at same size”.

Edit: importing from clipboard doesn't save the alpha channel. 

[udka]

I found some related posts and there are suggestions to look :
http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/Display-text-or-number-without-the-indicator-border/m-p/404015?query...
http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/Hide-border-of-a-string-indicator/td-p/874428

- I believe drop shadow was one of the intended feature of silver control so you can try patching up with ideas in above posts.

[aputman]

Here's an example.

[usrfrnly]

I was afraid that was the only answer. Thanks.

[usrfrnly]

and, just in case anyone else finds themselves in this pickle, RESIZE THE CONTROL FIRST. the control starts to look funny pretty quickly if resized.