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Cross-post I found the way how to change image on boolean button without using control editor. Essentially you have to to manually insert a png as button image and then replace it with another png programmatically inside .ctl file. The only condition is that initial png file has to have greater filesize than new one. If you want to make a lot of buttons just create first one using biggest PNG (by file size not dimensions). Technically it should be possible to replace any image inside a control with this method. As .ctl file looks exactly like macintosh resource fork, it should be also possible to omit the limitation of smaller size, by updating respective offsets within a file, however I failed with first trials (not many). Example attached - LV8.2 buttontest.zip

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I don't know why, but I missed your answers guys! I guess I should "track" my topics. Thanks for the feedback. I indeed thought I could mirror the NI Report Generation VIs for the Basic Reports palette. The rest of the code would be hidden inside those to control individually cells, paragraphs and graphics. That's the approach I'll take for the first version. Building on that can be transparent for the end-user of the library. Still, I found some bumps in the current implementation of the AODL 1.3 library. Its behavior is not polished to the point where it's as easy as OfficeReport. I'll try to document that a little.