LabVIEW Public Beta Program in 2023
New Feature: Diagram Zoom
@Christina_R wrote:
BTW, I believe pinch is working (at least, on Windows) for zooming. Does it not work for you?
Wow so sorry that I assumed it wasn't working. Not sure how I would test it in a VM anyway.
@Christina_R wrote:
BTW, I believe pinch is working (at least, on Windows) for zooming. Does it not work for you?
Pinch works fine on the trackpad of a MacBook Air!
@crossrulz wrote:
@Christina_R wrote:
Notes:
- Ctrl-- and Ctrl-+ no longer modify the font size, since they are now the default shortcuts for zoom. Ctrl-< and Ctrl-> are the new shortcuts for font size.
This is a huge blow to me since I use those nearly constantly. Are they replaced with something else?
Agreed.
Note that the text size (legacy) and now diagram zoom using crtl+/- does NOT require the shift key, even though the unshifted "+" is actually an "=" (!!!).
The new text sizing assignment requires ctrl+shit+> and ctrl+shit+< (3 simultaneous keys!). I wonder if we could get rid of the need for the shift key and just do the same as ctrl-comma and ctrl-period. (not sure how it looks on non-us keyboards)
Overall, I would have preferred if diagram zoom would just do an image manipulation with proper anti-aliasing instead of changing (virtual) font sizes and redrawing/coercing everything to hard pixels. Zoom should be a purely cosmetic property of the diagram. Behind the scenes the diagram should always be 1:1, with a thin layer mapping mouse coordinates of the zoomed diagram to it.
@ShockHouse wrote:
There appears to be a visual bug with array constants on the block diagram that have scrollbars. The scrollbar does not zoom out with the rest of the block diagram, but instead just says where it is as the rest of the diagram moves. When you zoom in, the scrollbar area just goes gray instead.
I did not test with any other scrollbars on block diagrams so it may be in more than just array constants.
I did not see the behavior that you described with Linux.
@PNR wrote:
The (blinking) cursor position for text boxes (strings, labels, etc.) is off by a few pixels when zoomed.
The thinner bar on the left is where the next character will actually appear. The wider bar to the right is where the cursor is blinking. It works just fine, just looks a bit strange when working with text while zoomed.
This looked fine up to max zoom in Linux Mint. There was no extra spacing between the cursor and the blinking line (in Linux), as shown above.
@PNR wrote:
Text can also wrap differently depending on the current zoom level (Size To Text is disabled).
So far, I'm impressed with the Linux version. I could not reproduce what you demonstrated in Linux Mint. The wrap remains as it should when zooming in or out. I tried both having the entire text on a single line, but resizing the string constant and when there is a carriage return between Hello & World!.
I never thought I'd become a fan of this feature, but as vision is not as great as it used to be, this is actually a nice feature that I have already adopted. Thanks NI!
@PNR wrote:
Here is one more. When dragging the icon of a VI onto a zoomed block diagram, artifacts will remain in the dragged locations. It appears that the wrong region on the screen is updated as is visible in one of the zoom levels in the example below. The artifacts can easily be fixed by resetting the zoom level or scrolling. It also does not seem to affect any other drag operation.
I reproduced this in Linux Mint.
I also noticed an interesting behavior and will pay more attention to it and will report it in a separate thread. It seems that when adding a new VI to the project and opening that VI, the opened block diagram is minimized. I was not able to reproduce it and I do not recall if I did something unusual....
As I tried to repeat the steps that cause what I wrote above, I noticed that when placing the icon of another VI on the block diagram that an artifact started but then it stopped and it displayed correctly.
