LabVIEW Idea Exchange
If you make a control into a type def (a standard type definitions, not a strict one) copies of it will no longer have scaling options in their contextual menus. Why? You can still rescale it manually, even change its looks (as it is not a strict typedef), so why is it not possible to set it to scale with the pane. Is this by design, or is it a bug?
I could understand it if this only affected strict typedefs (although a separate idea would be to not necessarily restrict the size of such typedefs either, only their value options (if any) and/or other visual traits), but not regular typedefs...the fact that they allow manual size manipulation makes it illogical that automatic scaling is not available too. And there is even a way to fool LabVIEW into allowing you to turn on scaling; just remember to set the scale feature ON before you connect it to a typedef...it will then automatically scale, although you no longer will have access to turn that off/on(!). (Not unlike the very nice bug that allows us to scale controls on multiple tab pages as long as we do it on all pages without running the code in-between...shhh...).
