What's wrong with the current LabVIEW Fonts option dialog? Plenty!
Let's have a look:
- We can only see one of the three font groups
- It does not tell us the name of the current font, just how it looks!
If we specify a custom font, we get a dialog that has confused me since I started out with LabVIEW 4.0 way over 10 years ago.
Especially the two checkboxes in the lower left corner have bugged me since day one, because they are very confusing.
- If we open this dialog from the options menu, both boxes are unchecked.
- If we open this dialog from the BD or FP font pulldown, one of the checkboxes in inoperational, but not greyed out. Why???
- Unless we read the help, it is not clear what they actually do and what they actually show.
- Do I click these to make whatever I have selected the default or do I click these to revert back to the default???
- ...
This font dialog needs to go and be redesigned from scratch!
IDEA:
Why not make the Font options a bit more intuitive. Here's a quick draft. Even if we select the default font, it should show what it is but have the parts on the right greyed out.
It probably would need a small preview area below each selection (not shown). Each can be much smaller than the current preview window. (It does not matter if a 500pt font is clipped a bit.)
Message Edited by altenbach on 07-28-2009 09:41 AM