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Right-click the scroll bar of a pane and select Properties from the shortcut menu to display this dialog box.

Appearance

Use this tab to specify which elements of the object are visible.

• Label Visible—Displays the owned label for the object and enables the Label Text text box so you can edit the label. You use the label to identify the object on the front panel and block diagram.
• Label Text—Text to use for the label.
• Caption Visible (disabled)—Displays the caption for the object and enables the Caption Text text box so you can edit the caption. You use the caption to display a detailed description of the object on the front panel. This option is not available for panes.
• Enabled State (disabled)—This option is not available for panes.
  • Enabled—The user can operate the object.
  • Disabled—The object appears as normal on the front panel, but the user cannot operate the object.
  • Disabled & grayed—The object appears dimmed on the front panel, and the user cannot operate the object.
• Size—Sets the size of the object in pixels.
  • Height—The height of the object in pixels. You cannot set the height of numeric controls.
  • Width—The width of the object in pixels.
• Background—Displays the images available for use as pane backgrounds. To add an image to the list permanently, you must save the image in the labview\resource\backgrounds directory.
• Browse—Displays a file dialog box you can use to navigate to an image file to import. LabVIEW supports BMP, JPEG, and PNG graphic formats for background images. If you attempt to load an image of an unsupported graphic format, LabVIEW returns an error.
• Position—Sets the positioning of the background image in the pane. You can select from the following options:
  • Stretch—(Default) The image stretches to fill the pane. When you select this option, resizing the pane also resizes the image.
  • Center—The image appears centered in the pane.
  • Tile—The image repeats in a tile pattern to fill the pane.