Unable to Change Front Panel Background Image in LabVIEW

Updated Dec 30, 2021

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Software

  • LabVIEW

Issue Details

I have added an image to the folder <Program Files>\National Instruments\LabVIEW xxxx\resource\backgrounds, which contains the default background images for the Front Panel in LabVIEW. After doing that and following the procedure in the article How to Set an Image as a Front Panel Background, the front panel background image will not change or it will show a dotted box outline, but not image.
 
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And now not even the default background images can be used. How can I fix this problem?

Solution

The behavior has been reported in bug 1642711. Currently there are two workarounds that can fix this problem:
  • Moving the added image out of the background images default folder:
1. Close all LabVIEW windows.
2. Move the image that was added to a different location, for example to the Windows default picture folder.
3. Open LabVIEW.
4. Follow the steps in the article How to Set an Image as a Front Panel Background. Now the default images will be properly loaded.
5. While selecting the background image to use in the previous step, clicking the Browse option in the Background tab of the Pane Properties and then navigating to the image that was moved outside the default folder, will load it correctly as well.
 
  • Keeping the image that was added to the background images default folder:
1. Close all LabVIEW windows.
2. Create a text file in the same default folder and input the image's name on the first line of the text file.
3. Save the text file with the same name as the image, then proceed to close the text file.
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4. Open LabVIEW.
5. Follow the steps in the article How to Set an Image as a Front Panel Background. Now it will properly load the added or default images when selected as the background.

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