I have a few trivial Labview Control questions

1.
I'm trying to customize the look of a boolean switch control with the CTL Editor, but I cannot seem to "Import picture" with transparent color information. the original switch has transparent colors, but the clipboard either doesnt store the transparency, or Labview only recognizes one particular color as transparent. How do I do this? (actually trying to make a circuit-diagram-looking switch, if one exists, I wont need to do the above)
2.
I have a "vertical pointer slide" with 7 pointers, and I'm using "fill to value below" with different colors between each slide. Whenever sliders are at the same value, the fill color of an incorrect slider shows, rather than the slider immediately following. How do I
fix this behavior?
Attachments:
switch.ctl ‏20 KB
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Hi,
-For question number 1, please refer to the following link
http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/3efedde4322fef198​62567740067f3cc/e99c7bd3da4622158625635a00770210?O​penDocument
-For question number 2, I would try to play around with property nodes of a slider control such as ACtive Sliders, Fill Color and the array of references DigitalDisplay[] and develop some logic between the filling colors and the values of each sliders.
Cyril
Cyril Bouton
Active LabVIEW Developper

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