I use a Numeric Fill Slide in my program to indicate the value of a particular quantity that I can set in a variety of different ways. It occured to me that it would be pretty nifty if I could actually set the value by clicking on this indicator as well.
Then it occurred to me that, rather than change the Fill Slide to a control and setting its value using a local variable when necessary, I could just make a separate Fill Slide control, make it transparent, and put it on top of the Fill Slide indicator.
Unfortunately, this doesn't work: I can use the Paintbrush tool to change the color of the empty Fill Slide to whatever I want, but if I set it to transparent, any objects underneath the Fill Slide will still not show through.
Is this behavior by design? Or is it a bug in LabVIEW 8.5? Or is there some other way to make the Fill Slide transparent that I am not aware of?
