cursor mover

[Dekay]

Can the cursor mover be hidden?  Software is Labview 8.5. The cursor mover is the diamond shaped control that appears when 'visible items, cursor legend' is selected after right clicking on an xy graph.

I reformatted the appearance of the rest of the graph, but can't reformat the cursor mover separately.

Thanks

[NIquist]

I don't think you can programmatically hide it but you can simply drag it out of your display area so the user can't see or use it.  Or, put it on top of your graph, select it and then 'Move to Back' so it's hidden behind your graph. You can also color all of its pieces transparent making it invisible (but it could still be clicked).

[Dekay]

I've done that (rearrange and put the cursor mover in the back) in the past, but can't seem to do it with this one. The piece of the front panel giving problems is attached. The cursor mover can't be selected separately from the rest of the graph as if it is grouped. Can't ungroup either.

Thanks

[aeastet]

You can make a custom control and make it talk to the property node to make what you want. This way you leave the ugly one hidden and get what you need.

[codeman · Accepted solution]

In the control editor, you have to select the cursor mover and then customize that piece.  The cursor mover is itself a control.  You can then make the whole thing transparent and move the controls behind the decoration so that they can't be accessed by the user.  I've done that in the attached VI, but I only have as far back as LV 2009.  I back saved for 8.5; hopefully that works for you.