custom control resize "smoothly"

[didierj]

Hi,

:headbang: Has anyone solved the problem: when a picture is included into a control and then the control is resized, LV goes to resize the "pixels", making the control unusable for customer purposes. The color-transition in standard controls remains smooth.

To my understanding, the solution to the problem would be to be able to create custom .ptc-files, but I don't know how the binary format has to be, or at least if there is an app which can create it.

Any suggestions, comments?

[PJM_labview]

Didier

I did notice this well. As far as I know there is no way around it (except define one button per size .... ). These ptc file don't seem to have any known header.

PJM

[Michael Aivaliotis]

To my understanding, the solution to the problem would be to be able to create custom .ptc-files, but I don't know how the binary format has to be, or at least if there is an app which can create it.

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I don't know (and cannot find) any application that can read these *.ptc files. However, if you look into the same directory, you will find some other files called *.3ds. These are a standard 3D format used by many 3D rendering applications. You can probably download a free viewer somewhere for these. I haven't figured out why there are so few *.sds file compared to *.ptc files.

Even if you figure out how to create your own *.ptc files, you are not finished yet. How do you "compile" a new control to use these images? It would be great if NI gave us the tools to do all of this. . This problem has been raised in these forums before. For example, how do you create irregular shaped controls with equally irregular hotspots!