Front panel with round corner

[Jonathan Borduas]

Hi everybody

I'm searching a way to have a window with round corner .

Is there a way to do it in labVIEW ?

or

Is it possible to get the picture of what the front panel is hiding so i can put it in a 2D picture control ?

Thank you

J Borduas

[crelf]

Icon Technologies used to have a toolkit where you could make your UIs be all sorts of shapes, but I don't see it on their website anymore...

[Jonathan Borduas]

Icon Technologies used to have a toolkit where you could make your UIs be all sorts of shapes, but I don't see it on their website anymore...

Thank you, I will take a look

[Jonathan Borduas]

In case I don't find anything on the website of ICON technologies.

I was thinking about a workaround:

I get the picture of the content behind the window and I put a picture control behind the round shape of the corner.

So you have the impression the window stop there but it doesn't.

Do you think it's possible ?

[jcarmody]

Do you think it's possible ?

There's a thread on NI's forum about cutting holes through front panels. You might be able to implement your idea following that example. The BD password is "simple".

[Jonathan Borduas]

There's a thread on NI's forum about cutting holes through front panels. You might be able to implement your idea following that example. The BD password is "simple".

Thank you so much !

[jcarmody]

Thank you so much !

I saw where your status says you've accomplished this. Please show us how you did it.

[Francois Normandin]

Hi Jonathan,

I don't know which solution you chose, but I meant to put this example together earlier... just didn't find the example code I was looking for.

The code below is taken from John Lokanis, see this topic. Anyway, I put up this example.

playing with Make Window Transparent.zip

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<param name="quality" value="high" />

<param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" />

<param name="flashVars" value="thumb=http://content.screencast.com/users/normandinf/folders/Jing/media/ce6b4f99-a9d6-40d3-812d-4a21bc6d3f07/FirstFrame.jpg&containerwidth=1090&containerheight=628&content=http://content.screencast.com/users/normandinf/folders/Jing/media/ce6b4f99-a9d6-40d3-812d-4a21bc6d3f07/transparent%20panel.mp4&blurover=false" />

<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" />

<param name="scale" value="showall" />

<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" />

<param name="base" value="http://content.screencast.com/users/normandinf/folders/Jing/media/ce6b4f99-a9d6-40d3-812d-4a21bc6d3f07/" />

<iframe type="text/html" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" style="overflow:hidden;" src="http://www.screencast.com/users/normandinf/folders/Jing/media/ce6b4f99-a9d6-40d3-812d-4a21bc6d3f07/embed" height="628" width="1090" ></iframe>

</object>

[Jonathan Borduas]

Hello everyone,

With the Region Functions from the Windows API, you can give the shape you want to the window (such as the shape of the United States, see area examples.lvilb).

For more information: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd162915 (v = VS.85).aspx

In the zip file there is a VI for of all Windows API Region Functions. Have fun!

Jonathan Borduas

Windows API - region functions.zip

[ancle]

Hi Jonathan,

I don't know which solution you chose, but I meant to put this example together earlier... just didn't find the example code I was looking for.

The code below is taken from John Lokanis, see this topic. Anyway, I put up this example.

playing with Make Window Transparent.zip

<object id="scPlayer" class="embeddedObject" width="1090" height="628" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://content.screencast.com/users/normandinf/folders/Jing/media/ce6b4f99-a9d6-40d3-812d-4a21bc6d3f07/jingh264player.swf" >

<param name="movie" value="http://content.screencast.com/users/normandinf/folders/Jing/media/ce6b4f99-a9d6-40d3-812d-4a21bc6d3f07/jingh264player.swf" />

<param name="quality" value="high" />

<param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" />

<param name="flashVars" value="thumb=http://content.screencast.com/users/normandinf/folders/Jing/media/ce6b4f99-a9d6-40d3-812d-4a21bc6d3f07/FirstFrame.jpg&containerwidth=1090&containerheight=628&content=http://content.screencast.com/users/normandinf/folders/Jing/media/ce6b4f99-a9d6-40d3-812d-4a21bc6d3f07/transparent%20panel.mp4&blurover=false" />

<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" />

<param name="scale" value="showall" />

<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" />

<param name="base" value="http://content.screencast.com/users/normandinf/folders/Jing/media/ce6b4f99-a9d6-40d3-812d-4a21bc6d3f07/" />

<iframe type="text/html" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" style="overflow:hidden;" src="http://www.screencast.com/users/normandinf/folders/Jing/media/ce6b4f99-a9d6-40d3-812d-4a21bc6d3f07/embed" height="628" width="1090" ></iframe>

</object>

Hello,

In your application, if I show title bar and don't want to show close button. How to do this? Thank you!

[Francois Normandin]

Hello,

In your application, if I show title bar and don't want to show close button. How to do this? Thank you!

You might want to make it "unclosable" by the user. Look at the VI Properties "Windows Appearance" tab and uncheck the "Allow User to Close Window". I don't know if that will work as you intend it to work...

[ancle]

You might want to make it "unclosable" by the user. Look at the VI Properties "Windows Appearance" tab and uncheck the "Allow User to Close Window". I don't know if that will work as you intend it to work...

Hello,

I already uncheck "Allow User to Close Window", but it just show grayed out. Is it possible shows as attached image? Thank you!

[Francois Normandin]

Hello,

I already uncheck "Allow User to Close Window", but it just show grayed out. Is it possible shows as attached image? Thank you!

Doesn't the title bar defeat the purpose of having rounded corners?

I don't think I can achieve what you're looking for.

Anyone dares trying?