background color of front panel when printing

[alias10]

My vi has a control named "print" which allows the user to print the front panel during execution. The background color of the front panel is white, to avoid filling the printed page with any color. In labview 7.1 (and also 6.0), this worked perfectly. I recently updated to labview 8 and now the background color of the print is gray. Does anybody have any idea how to avoid this?

I am using the "print panel.vi" found in the "vi.lib\utility\printvi.llb". I also tried with the "Easy Print VI Panel or Documentation.vi", with the same result. The same problem also occurs when exporting the front panel to a ".png" file.

Best regards

[chilly_charly]

I tried with different colors, without any success.

I think that this is a bug !  Good catch !

[AlexxxR]

Hi,

I´m sorry for the behaviour of LabVIEW 8 Front Panel. I have taken your feedback and sent it to our developers in Austin/TX.

I hope they fix it but I´m not sure if they have a fast solution to this Problem.

As a workaround you can use a Decoration Item, like the raised box and color them like you have to. This works in the attached modified example

Best regards

Alexander Rudolph

NI Switzerland

[Wendy L]

Hello all,

This has been reported to R&D (# 3R3F7UA3) for further investigation. A possible workaround is to use a decoration box with a fill color as the background of the VI. Thanks for the feedback!

[THailey3]

This was reported to R&D (# 3R3F7UA3) and was fixed in LabVIEW 8.2. Here is a link to the current evaluation software download for LabVIEW.

Thanks!

[jochynator]

Hello,

I'm using LV 8.0.1 and I have the "gray problem" when trying to print attached VI. I always obtain gray surrounding even when using decoration box.

Can anybody help?

[TCPlomp]

There is only one workaround:

LV8.2 or LV7.1

Ton

[bobi]

You can put flatbox in a size of entire front panel, set color white and move it to back.

B