present non-standard system colours similar to 'T' for transparent colour in the colorbox

[ghighuphu]

Dear users,

Summary: Manifest / display non-standard system colours (those with active 25th bit) similar to 'T' for transparent.

Not sure how it should look like, some ideas here:

- display "T" or "S" for those colours as well; maybe in a colour that is in contrast to the colour displayed

- reserve a few pixels in a corner of the color box a paint those white / contrast colour

The system colours cannot be distinguished from the user colours easily. Right, they do not mix with the history and they have a special section in the color picker dialogue. But the issue of mistaking the system colour for a standard colour appeared several times in the forum:

http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/Can-one-re-define-the-colorbox-to-have-any-16bit-output/td-p/2859380

http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/Control-color-using-calculated-value/m-p/489080

http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/System-colors-do-not-give-correct-RGB-values/m-p/868863

Well, some food for thoughts.

[Darren]

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