Bring back ability to format a single letter within the boolean text

[Ray.R]

In LabVIEW 7.1 it was possible to select a single letter and format the font (Bold, Underline), without having to affect the rest of the letters.

Since LabVIEW 8.x (verified in 8.5) it is no longer possible to do so.  This was discovered while coding in LabVIEW 2009 SP1.

See images below:

In the above images, only the 'S' in Select was bold and underlined, whereas trying to do the same in more recent versions of LabVIEW causes the entire text to be formatted.  Why remove a good-working feature?

Please bring back that feature.

Thanks,

RayR

[JackDunaway]

Background information: http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/Selectively-underscore-character-within-Boolean-text/m-p/1274392/hig...

[Ray.R]

Thanks Jack,

I should have included the link to the background info.  We still can't give kudos to people who reply in the Ideas Exchange, can we?

[JackDunaway]

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@Ray.R wrote:

We still can't give kudos to people who reply in the Ideas Exchange, can we?

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Sure you can! Take your pick. 😉

[AristosQueue (NI)]

It never worked in LV 7.1. Yes, you can do it initially, but when you save and reload the VI, the entire text is underlined. What was fixed was the bug that made you think that you could do it. (I just loaded LV 7.1 to confirm this original behavior.)

[Ray.R]

Oh... then that bug has to be fixed properly  😄

[F._Schubert]

@AQ: What I've seen is that it did go back to not underlining anything. But it might depend on which letters are underlined (the first, more than 50%).

But what I still can do is to underline to my desires in the init part of a vi.

What I didn't test if this is working in a built exe.

Anyway, I'd like to have this ability to work on boolean texts as on any text.

Felix

[Matt_W1]

If you check the background information, I posted a VI that does this. So it's seems to be a limitation of the LabVIEW UI, since on mac LabVIEW can create VI's that show this and those VIs seem to work properly on windows(open, modify, save, compile and run the executable). So the VI data format seems to support this feature already.

[Ray.R]

Hi Matt,

You are correct, it is possible to do so, but not directly, so this should be a walk in the park for all those SW guru's at NI.  After all, they are entitled to a break, too.  😄

The workaround should not stop the votes for this idea...

[dan_u]

Great suggestion. This should also work for labels or other kind of text. It would help to use e.g. greek letters (like omega) mixed with latin letters.

[Ray.R]

Thanks Dan,

I agree.  The boolean text should support whatever Labels and Caption do. 

Have a look at the font selection and choose Symbol.  That is what I used to write Greek letter for the boolean text of the Cancel button.  See below: