Scripting the Control Editor

[d.w.b]

Can LabVIEW scripting be used to customize individual parts of Controls and Indicators such as adding cosmetic parts programmatically?

[paul_cardinale]

You can copy decorations from a front panel onto the front panel of a .ctl file.

[Darren · Accepted solution]

The Control Editor as you describe it (the tool used to modify control parts) does not have a scripting interface.

[TiTou]

you might want to take a look at the control generator, it lets you create buttons based on set of images, it's a long way from what you're asking but hey...

https://www.vipm.io/search/?q=ui+tools

[d.w.b]

Thanks for the feedback but the control editor is needed to bind an opaque decoration to stretch with an indicator given a transparent background to work around an old bug (CAR#180305) where LabVIEW would otherwise elevate the z-order of the indicator's value when updated to be above a subpanel that is popped up above it. So rather than fixing the mass of indicators in-place it seems the approach must be to manually create custom control templates then use scripting to programmatically replace them.