Is there a way to change the colors of multiple VI front panels?

Hi,
I am currently creating a LabView program controlling a lot of sensors and actuators. I have based the GUI on a tab-control with different buttons which again opens up different VI front panels in a singel sub panel below. I realy want to have a different color theme on my program than the standard gray LabView theme, but I would like to change the colors for all my VIs in a smooth and quick way. I really would not like to click on all controls, indicators etc. to get new colors, as there are a lot of them! Any ideas out there, if this is possible?
Thanks in advance!
Lars

Lars,
please note that using the grayscale theme is recommended not only by NI. Using color is very delicate thing since you have to consider:
- readability of text might suffer due to insufficient contrast
- overuse of (signaling) color might distract the user from important settings/information
- color-blind user?
That being said, you can color the frontpanels of the VIs you include in the sub panel dynamically. Please take a look into attached example on how this could be done (LV 2009).
Please note that this is recoloring the frontpanel background only. If you need other elements to recolor as well, this can be done similar but is more effort....
hope this helps,
Norbert
CEO: What exactly is stopping us from doing this?
Expert: Geometry
Marketing Manager: Just ignore it.
Attachments:
FP ColorChange.vi ‏14 KB

Similar Messages

Is there a way to change the color of the Bezier Curves and points to a different color other than black I find it perplexing while setting points and curves working on a photo that needs to be separated from it's background for placement on transparent

Is there a way to change the color of the Bezier Curves and points to a different color other than black I find it perplexing while setting points and curves working on a photo that needs to be separated from it's background for placement on transparent backgrounds. Any thoughts?

Yes. Well, sort of: instead of a "path", set the pen tool to "shape" in the tool properties. Then set the fill colour to transparent, and the stroke colour to the colour you want. You can also set the stroke width.
Not perfect, but at least you can see the path more clearly - the anchor points and handles still remain the default colour. Open the path panel, and right-mouse click the path shape to create a selection based on that shape. The Paths panel menu also allows you to create work paths based on that shape.
Unfortunately when you try to move the handles the black thin outline appears again until you release the mouse button.
This is one of several things that works better in Photoline: in Photoline, once the path is set to a specific colour, editing the path uses the actual colour and stroke width. which is extremely handy for creating path based selection with awkward background colours and/or a high resolution screen. In Photoline the handles and bezier points are also much, much larger, which makes it rather simpler to work with as well - especially on a higher resolution screen. And when selected the handles and points are a clear red with a black outline - again easier to spot and identify. I just works better, in my opinion.

Is there any way to change the color of the Firefox 4 menu button away from orange? It attracts my attention and as far as I can tell personas change everything but the menu button color.

Is there any way to change the color of the Firefox 4 menu button away from orange? It attracts my attention and as far as I can tell personas change everything but the menu button color.

You can change it with the App Button Color extension - https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/app-button-color

Is there any way to change the security on multiple pdfs without having to open each pdf in acrobat ?

Hi all
Is there any way to change the security on multiple pdfs without having to open each pdf in acrobat ?

Hi Gilad
Thanks for the reply
I'm not sure how to create an action I have Acrobat Pro 8.
My company would love if I could make it as a batch file or some exe so that each file doesn't have to be opened in Acrobat

Is there any way to change the color scheme in a document in Pages?

I have come from a PC using Publisher for a weekly newsletter and am trying to use Pages to accomplish the same thing. i want to change the color scheme from week to week and have not found a way to accomplish this.
I am currently using Word for Mac for this, but I would like to move over to Pages. I'm playing with it some, but can't seem to find a way to change the color of the publication from week to week. To change to another template all together would cause me to have to reinvent the wheel each and every week, and I'm not willing to do that.
Adobe Illustrator is an option, but it looks mighty complicated to set it up... And I've balked at the price tag.
Any suggestions?

Pages does not have Themes like Word.
There might be other ways to achieve what you want by swapping master objects and changing colors of Styles. A bit more work but not horrendously more.
You can name color swatches in the Color Picker so you could set up a set of colors there then update styles and objects systematically using those swatches.
Illustrator would be an extremely poor choice for a Newsletter.
Have a look at the new Swift Publisher 3 in the App Store, currently 30% off. They have added some very good tools that have brought it into a much more Pro usable form. Including many key features that Pages lacks.
Peter

Is there a way to change the color of a linked eps or ai file in InDesign?

I have a questionaire form that I'm placing in several documents. I need it to be exactly the same in all instances except that it occurs in 4/c on some docs and 1/c (black) on others.
It'd be best to have all the Indesign files link to the same eps (or ai, or eps) file so that I know any change to the text of the linked questionaire will be reflected on all of the InDesign docs. But I don't think InDesign will let me change the color of the text and other filled or stoked elements of eps, ai, or pdf files.
I can change a these in a grayscale tif file. But rasterising the questionaire at a high dpi somewhat defeats the live update feature I'm trying to add here (and bloats my file size).
Could the fact that I can't change the document color mode to grayscale in AI be a factor here?
Thank you for your time!

The only way I can think of is to use a Spot Colour in Illustrator.
You can then place that into InDesign and the Spot Colour should show up in the Swatches Panel.
In InDesign - create a New Swatch and have this be a Spot colour too.
Using the Swatches Panel flyout menu (top right) you can go Ink Manager...
From here you can Map the colour used in Illustrator to the colour you have creaeted in InDesign.
This will replace the colour in InDesign only - and results may vary on output.
You will need to use View>Overprint Preview to view the results.
Hope that helps.

Is there a way to change the color of the answer bubble for the texts? Mine is now in gray and very hard to read

I just updated my iPhone and would like to change the color of the bubble for the text reply. Mine is now GRAY and it is much more difficult to read. The outgoing text bubble is still blue. Can I do this?

Yes. Well, sort of: instead of a "path", set the pen tool to "shape" in the tool properties. Then set the fill colour to transparent, and the stroke colour to the colour you want. You can also set the stroke width.
Not perfect, but at least you can see the path more clearly - the anchor points and handles still remain the default colour. Open the path panel, and right-mouse click the path shape to create a selection based on that shape. The Paths panel menu also allows you to create work paths based on that shape.
Unfortunately when you try to move the handles the black thin outline appears again until you release the mouse button.
This is one of several things that works better in Photoline: in Photoline, once the path is set to a specific colour, editing the path uses the actual colour and stroke width. which is extremely handy for creating path based selection with awkward background colours and/or a high resolution screen. In Photoline the handles and bezier points are also much, much larger, which makes it rather simpler to work with as well - especially on a higher resolution screen. And when selected the handles and points are a clear red with a black outline - again easier to spot and identify. I just works better, in my opinion.

Is there a way to change the color of the Menu Bar (Snow Leopard)?

Without using an external program, that is.
I know you can change it with an external program, but I was wondering if anyone knows how to modify it from within OS X's files themselves?
A similar question might be asked about the Dock, or Snow Leopard's Exposé.
     All modifications are done by navigating to: Mac OS Hard Drive/System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/
          Modify Exposé: expose-window-selection-big.png (for non-minimized windows), expose-window-selection-small.png (for minimized windows)
          Modify the color of the Dock: scurve-l.png, scurve-m.png, scurve-sm.png, scurve-xl.png
          Modify the color of the divider between apps and folders on the Dock: separatorstraight-horizontal.png, separatorstraight.png
          Modify the icon in the Dock when Stacks are activated: pileArrow.png, pileLeftArrow.png, pileRightArrow.png

I agree that major OS upgrades (e.g. Snow Leopard to Lion) will probably change things back to normal, and I don't entirely trust external programs to change things for me.
I'm going to stick around with Snow Leopard for a while though, so I was just wondering if anyone knew of a way to directly change the Menu Bar files themselves. The aforementioned modifications are just changes to the Dock's standard PNG files, so it's relatively easy to alter its color/design (backing up the original Dock.app just in case).

Is there a way to change the color of your calendars in the calendar app when it has been synced with multiple calendars?

I have just purchased an iPad 2 and I have gotten it setup to sync with my multiple calendars on Google Calendar. But the colors I have chosen for displaying my calendars in Google Calendar are not being used when the info comes over to the iPad. The iPad is choosing it's own colors for each calendar. Is there a way to customize this so I know who's calendar I am looking at by color shown? Thanks!

Size is never included in a style for a shape.
If you want to apply the resizing to all shapes, you can use the small flyout menu after applying the resizing to one shape, and choose Apply to all items of this type.

Is there a way to change the color of the Commenting indicator?

Our company is utilizing the commenting feature more now in Adobe Acrobat X Pro. This is an attempt to reduce printing on paper. In one of our processes, people will use the comments listed in the Comments Panel to keep track of each note. They mark each one as complete once they've reviewed whatever the note entails. The only problem is, as you click each comment from the panel, the comment is indicated on the page. The indicator that surrounds the comment is a light-blue squiggly line. It's a bit hard to see, so I was wondering if that color could be changed. I would prefer to have it as a red squiggly line.
I see how you can change the comment note colors, but not that indicator line that surrounds the comment. Is that some sort of system color that needs to be changed in Windows??
thanks,
Jon W.

No,
you can decrease the brightness level.
and
settings>General>accessibility
Bold Text
Larger Text
Increase Contrast
     Reduce Transparency
     Darken Colors
     Reduce White point
Perhaps some combination of the above will help you.

Custom Image bullets--is there a way to change the color?

The reason why is I'm trying to use one of the circles and it keeps coming out dark gray, and it needs to be white (on a B&W laser printer). This is for a check list on a church bulletin.
Also, is there a way to upload other bullet images to use?
Thanks!
MacBook Pro 15", CoreDuo 2 2.33 ghz Mac OS X (10.4.9) Cube 450 mhz

You would need to edit the custom image in some other application, such as GraphicConverter.
As for your second issue, Custom Image is the way to set an arbitrary image as a bullet -- what do you mean by "upload"?

Is there a way to change the font color for emailing and the signature?

Is there a way to change the font color with email signature on the iPhone and iPad?
I changed the color in Word on my laptop, emailed and copied to my signature, but it converts it back to black........

Looks like you didn't get a reply on your post, but it is still a problem. Font size is supposedly changeable via "Accessibility" in Settings, but it doesn't work. You can turn on "Zoom".

Is there a way to change the pin color in iPhoto so I can pin my photos and places from those from others. i think it would be cool to see where my friends have also been but not mix it with mine. Thanks

s there a way to change the pin color in iPhoto so I can pin my photos and places from those from others. i think it would be cool to see where my friends have also been but not mix it with mine. Thanks

No
Suggest to Apple
You can make a smart album based on camera to seperate photos
LN

HT4528 I can't see the new light blue font on many of the displays. Is there a way to change this color?

I can't see the new light blue font on many of the displays. Is there a way to change this color?

No you can change your wallpaper to make the font stand out more on your homepages and folders or you can adjustr the font size, bold and contrast here:
Settings > General > Accessibility
NOTE: Turning Bold text on will force your phone to reboot.

Is there a simple way to change the color of a new layer?

I draw a box, which creates a new layer, but I cannot find a way to change the color of the layer. I can easilty create a box and change the color in Fireworks but this logic or funtionality evades me in Photoshop. Perhaps I'm using the wrong program to create graphics. Should I use Design or Illustrator instead?

If you prefer using Fireworks, use Fireworks!
Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
Web | Graphics | Print | Media Specialists
http://alt-web.com/
http://twitter.com/altweb

Is there a way to change the colors of multiple VI front panels?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for