Round GUI

[Jo-Jo]

I was just wondering.  Does anyone know if there is some way to make a round Front Panel (or any shape other than rectangle)?  I wanted to make a GUI that was a shape other than rectangle, like Sonique.  Is this even possible in LabVIEW?

Thanks,
Jo-Jo

[smercurio_fc]

If you're on a Windows machine you can use the Windows API to do it. See attached for a simple example.

[Jo-Jo]

That's great, thanks a lot.  I apparently have a lot of investigation to do in regards to this.  I should be able to create some really cool GUIs with this.

Thanks,
Jo-Jo

[smercurio_fc]

A couple of links that may help:

http://www.thescarms.com/vbasic/IrregularForms.aspx
http://www.vbaccelerator.com/home/vb/Code/Libraries/Graphics_and_GDI/Changing_Window_Shapes/Creating...

[tst]

With the proper playing around, you can create some nice stuff.

[harjeemann]

Hi all,

   I want to create a hole in my GUI, and the discussion above helps me to reach near to my goal, but unfortunatly, i cannot make this running, can any one see am i calling the DLL in a right Manner.

Thanks In advance.

Regards

Harry

[harjeemann]

Hello all,

Done wrong names Used, get my problem

Harry

[tst]

It's also possible (and simpler) to do this by making a specific color in the window completely transparent, which causes it to allow click-throughs.

You can see an example of how to do this here, although that was just quick and dirty code, so it needs some cleaning up. I don't even remember if the color which should be transparent is set up as an input there - http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/Darren-s-Weekly-Nugget-04-17-2006/m-p/352929?view=by_date_ascending#...

[Jo-Jo]

My original desire to make a funny shaped window ended up evolving into a white paper (with example code), which you can view and download here:

https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-9775

The example allows the user to select a black and white bitmap, which then clips the window to match the bitmap.
It should contain everything you need.