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What's this crap on my plot legend? And; how to get rid of it?

Forgive the lack of a technical term; but what's the crap (shading/vertical lines) added to the mini-plot previews on the Plot Legend on this XY Graph in LV2012 SP1?

CrapLegend.png

 

And how do i get rid of it to make it look more like the original (e.g., just a solid color background)?

 

NoCrapLegend.png

 

I would normally specifcally identify these parts by name; yet it appears these parts have no name:

 

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Figured it out: it's from setting the Plot Area:Colors:BG Color property to Transparent. Changing this to a solid color likewise changes the preview to a solid color.

 

TransparentBackground.png

 

Bonus points: who can describe those design elements that appear when plot area is transparent? This is not a trick question; i don't know the answer, and am curious.

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My first thought was transparency, but I tried it and cannot make the background of the legend transparent.

 

Edit. After your second post. I cannot make it transparent from the FP with the coloring tools, although I did not try very long.  I may have missed the magic pixel.

 

Lynn

 

 

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@JackDunaway wrote:

Bonus points: who can describe those design elements that appear when plot area is transparent?


Plot preview underflooring?


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Keeping things synchronised with the title of the thread:

 

Undercrap.

 

Shane.

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Did you try the shovel tool (only in 2013 beta).  Great for removing crap from both block diagrams and front panels. 

 

shovel tool.png

Paul Falkenstein
Coleman Technologies Inc.
CLA, CPI, AIA-Vision
Labview 4.0- 2013, RT, Vision, FPGA
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Paul,

 

I think that tool is only in the 2023 beta.

 

Lynn

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@tst wrote:

@JackDunaway wrote:

Bonus points: who can describe those design elements that appear when plot area is transparent?


Plot preview underflooring?


those are called DFIR joists

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