swap background image?

[johanneshoer]

Hi,

I am looking for a posibility to dynamicaly change the background image of a vi.

See attached example: The switch should change the circle-image into a box-image. the two images are overlaid and I thought I could make one image visible and the other invisible, but the images have no terminal in the block diagramm...

Any idea?

[johanneshoer]

Now i tried to insert a picture in my vi and read a box-image or a circle image, depending on what I want as background.

How do you like this idea?

I have some problems loading and displaying the picture - I have no idea how to convert the jpeg-data into "picture-data". see attached vi. I have no idea what's wrong and I can not find any "jpg-to-picture"-vi     😞 

[falkpl]

Why must the image have no terminal?

a picture box control or a custom boolean is an easy method for doing exactly this,

The hard way with no terminal is to get a reference to the decoration (not easy since the decorations do not have lables and are an indexed object of the pane on which it resides).

There is also a pane image property to change the entire background.  I would stick with the picture box control if it was me (make the borders transparent).

[johanneshoer]

Thank you Paul. As you can see, that was my idea too 🙂  But I have stil problems

[falkpl]

See attached:

[falkpl · Accepted solution]

You will need a down convert for 7.1. Dont have it on my PC.

I used a picture ring Make the images with decorations (btw use a gif allows for transparent images on import) and pasted them in the image ring. took about 30seconds.

[johanneshoer]

I can not open LV 9.0-VIs

Could you please either save it as 7.1 or upload a screenshot?

Thanks.

BTW here is a screenshot of my problem:

 

[johanneshoer]

Ok,

thanks! It works well with the image ring 🙂

[jdeguire]

Try putting the Draw Flattened Pixmap VI where your broken wire is.