Front panel layout changes on other computer

[Bart_Aerts]

Hi all,

I have a very strange problem.

When I open my program on another computer, the front panel layout becomes very bad.

This is the case for the executable.

Does anybody know what the problem can be?

Thank you in advance.

[GerdW]

Hi Bart,

- It seems you're using controls from the System palette. Those controls will adapt to current computer settings (UI scheme, colors, etc.) and so the background color on your tab container changes (among other things). You should use graphics with transparent background for your decorations...

- It seems you called that EXE on a different OS version (like Win7 to XP). Windows uses different fonts/fontsizes in each version and as long as you use standard font settings in LabVIEW it will adapt to OS settings. Together with different aligning settings (align to lower/upper bound of control) of the controls they start to move around on the front panel... Solution: set the same font in each LAbVIEW version (I use "Tahoma 13" for nice results)! Set the same font in your EXE ini file (keys are like 'BDFont="Tahoma" 13'). Font setting keys are explained more than once in the forum...