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Lock destination font

I have very annoying thing in LabVIEW 2011. When I copy text from anywhere outside labview and paste it into string control, this changes control font to something strange, irrelevant to the source and destination font. In other words in MS Office there is a choice: keep source formatiing/keep destination formatting. LabVIEW has only some kind of the first option.

Is it a bug of my LabVIEW version or a feature? Is there any way around it? WHY changing control value should modify its property??? The same applies to comments, paths, etc...

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I'm not sure which to call it, but I agree with you that it is a pain. I wish they would at least provide a configuration setting to make it one way or the other.

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This is probably a limitation of LabVIEWs support for unicode characters. and the different behaviors you would see are likely to depent on the type of font on the clipboard and the OS used.  Annoying but, hey when no-one agrees on a specific standard there is going to be pain.

 

Hmmm. can it really be "Standard" if there are so many?


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One more confusion around the same issue. If I forget and paste, Ctrl+Z does not work, does not matter how many times it have been pressed. The font is lost.

 

Workaround: Control font is locked if VI is in run mode. Does not work for indicators, block diagram or while VI is not executable, but at least anything.

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