Monkeymerlot
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3 weeks ago I think the easiest way is to have a picture control with your image, make sure the background color of the control is transparent. Then with a property node you can set the "Visible" property to False when the user is controlling it locally, and True when the script is controlling it remotely.
For an example, in the lithography program property UI subpanels (ie path edit), we do this to hide the buttons for the voltage schedule.
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@Monkeymerlothttps://github.com/Monkeymerlot do you have any ideas how to do this in the simplest way possible? If an Instrument VI is being controlled by an external script I want to overlay a transparent image with some text to indicate the state of the VI and let the user know that they shouldn't be hasty about pushing any buttons or changing settings.
Something like this: image.png (view on web)https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/46bcb687-5ad4-496c-b32b-eb1cfb24ee52
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@Monkeymerlot do you have any ideas how to do this in the simplest way possible? If an Instrument VI is being controlled by an external script I want to overlay a transparent image with some text to indicate the state of the VI and let the user know that they shouldn't be hasty about pushing any buttons or changing settings.
Something like this: