Dirk J.

maybe it has to do with the fact that I'm not a native speaker ... but... I have no idea what you want to do (or what you've tried to do to get there)

One thing I don't understand: the system boolean has 6 states (also for hovering over it), but the pushbutton only has four. How do you add these two extra states to the push button?

Yes, all of you are right of course, I was sleeping. Not only IE, firefox does it too :-) Ok, one last semi-smart remark: for windows apps you could use ActiveX controls, but for the multi platform implementation I don't know. I don't have the OpenG builder available, so I can't comment on that. But saving these buttons as *.ctl is probably to easy a thought?

That's because you're just pasting an image into the control's background or, if you're unlucky, the foreground, and not into one of the states. Just wondering, in the WindowsXP-world, do these kind of buttons actually exist? So, buttons with an icon, which change style going from Luna to Silver to Classic?

just one more note: if you edit your button, you can also choose to import a picture from file instead from clipboard. this allows you to import e.g. PNG files, with transparancy properties. (doesn't seem to work via photoshop + clipboard) see attached VI, you'll get the idea.Download File:post-3523-1158942520.vi

almost system...

You can just customize the control and paste your images. Put a system boolean on your FP, then right click, point to 'advanced', then click 'customize'. Click on the little wrench just below "view' in the control editor's menu, to change to "customize mode" (you start in 'edit mode' by default; the wrench changes to tweazers) If you right click on the button now, and point to 'picture item', a menu expands with 6 items on it, corresponding to the various button states. Normal LV booleans only have 4 images (true state, false state, both transition states). The system button has two extra for two 'mouse-over' states. You can select a picture item, copy it to the clipboard and edit it in whatever you use to edit icons, copy it and then paste it back into the image.

I agree.

For a moment I thought the (*) referred to the complex conjugate of BEER. Should a complex representation of beer exist, the concept of "imaginary beer" worries me.... booh Im[ :beer: ], hooray Re[ :beer: ]

I've been using the MSXML parser through ActiveX, and for 99% of my needs, it works perfectly fine. It seems to be able to parse large XML documents (up to a few MB) pretty fast. I've been experimenting with the .NET implementation, but that turned out to be about 10 times as slow, which is unfortunate because it has some more options. I'm not familiar with the LibXML, so can't give you information there...

exactly.

Well, the thing is that, "according to godwin's law", the probability of comparison grows, and by tradition the person who does make the comparison of a certain action in their daily life to the nazi's, hitler, etc, loses the debate. The tendency is (unfortunately) that whoever mentions the nazi's, hitler, enz, has allready lost the discussion. That cannot be anything but wrong, because if history cannot be told, there is nothing to be learned from the mistakes that were made.

I'm sorry to spoil the fun topic, but I think Ben's first reply shows that he misinterpreted the discussion of Godwin's Law. If you read the Wiki topic Jim has linked to carefully, you'll see that most of the discussion is actually about "illegal" evocation of Godwin's law. I don't mean to bash Ben here, but since I raised a "Godwin" on Alfa once on this forum, I kinda feel strong about this ...

Godwin's law? It is amazing to realize how high the level of the lava forums are - when on topic. If you have nothing relevant to say, please stay away. PS, as ot the Godwin's law, yes, I am familiar with Fitch's euphemistic inversion.

great!

I don't know about the activeX, and I agree that the way Labview implements this problem presently is confusing at the very least. I've tried it using .Net, in system.windows.forms there's a constructor for FolderBrowserDialog. This does have a ShowDialog method, which unfortunately only brings up an empty form....