How to make some part of front panel transparent?

There is a property node to make a front panel completly transparent...but is there anything that only makes some part of the vi transparent like if I define a decorative block in the vi which takes 1 quardant of front panel and I have a control to make it transparent during runtime...
And moreover the frontpanel transparent property makes the whole window transparent, is there any way to retain toolbar of window like stop, run button when front panel is transparent??

Hi,
Have a look at this VI (attached). To make it work you need to create an image mask as a .png (open paint, colour in the areas that you want to become invisible and save it as a .png). The VI diffentiates between white areas and black areas of the mask you create, the black areas will become transparent and the white areas will remain the same- this will be implemented on your front panel. I've included an example of a possible paint image in "mask2.png".
You may also want to play around with the resolution of the mask created in paint, this will effect how the program works (I advise you use a lower resolution than your display- I used 500x300)
NT: If the front panel controls disappear, go into the block diagram window and attach a false constant instead of a control. Let me know if this works
Cheers, Tom
Attachments:
custom window.zip ‏107 KB

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