Default font

[JohannJunginger]

I once switched the font to Symbol so I could use some Greek letters on my front panel and now every new control I create has a label appearing in the Symbol font. Block diagram comments show up normally. How do I fix this annoyance? 

[FireFist-Redhawk · Accepted solution]

CTRL+1 should bring it back to the default Application Font.

[altenbach]

It is not clear what you did. Did you (1) change the font of any particular text element or did you (2) change the default font in the options menu? Only (2) should have the effect that you see.

[JohannJunginger]

I had typed the character in the Application(?) font and selected the character and changed it to Symbol on the FP. If I could find where to change it in options my problem would be solved.

[FireFist-Redhawk]

Tools... > Options > Environment > Fonts might be what you are looking for. I myself am confused now as well.

[JohannJunginger]

So in my Environment Options it shows Application Font*, Dialog Font* and System Font*. I don't see an option for changing Current Font. I though it found it in LabVIEW.ini as a FPFont="Symbol" 15 but changing that didn't seem to have an effect unless I mangled the syntax. 

[FireFist-Redhawk]

The option for changing current font is at the top of the FP. If you fully restart LabVIEW, you're seeing Symbol font here?

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[altenbach · Accepted solution]

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@JohannJunginger wrote:

So in my Environment Options it shows Application Font*, Dialog Font* and System Font*.

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There are symbolic font and adapt to the OS theme. Could it be that you have Greek localized windows?

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@JohannJunginger wrote:

 I though it found it in LabVIEW.ini as a FPFont="Symbol" 15 but changing that didn't seem to have an effect unless I mangled the syntax. 

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That would do it! Have you tried to just delete that line? I am not sure if you have to restart LabVIEW after changing that line.

[JohannJunginger]

That is correct. It shows up as Symbol on LabVIEW restart and even full PC reboot. All my other Windows apps default to 'regular' characters. 

[JohannJunginger]

Deleting the line in the LabVIEW INI file solved the problem. I did restart LabVIEW but I thought that was standard practice whenever you mess with the INI file. I had forgotten there are many hidden options in the INI file that you cannot get from Tools --> Options.