Got High resolution Monitor but everytnings too big

[Clueless1]

I just got a bigger monitor with higher resolution.  For some reason, the block diagrams are screwed up.  It seems like everything got bigger!  What's the deal, and how do I fix it?

Thanks

[altenbach]

That does not sound right. The LabVIEW block diagram has a fixed scale in pixels and cannot scale (e.g. scalar wires a single pixels wide). Are you sure the screen resolution is set correctly?

(Only the front panels can scale fo the screen size if configured accordingly).

What is your OS and LabVIEW version? Can you attach a screenshot?

[Clueless1]

GIF attached. 

Could it have to do with the system Fonts interacting with LV fonts?  When I went to the higher resolution, I also changed the DPI setting which makes the fonts bigger.

Windows XP
LV8.5


Message Edited by Clueless1 on 02-08-2008 11:52 AM

[Ben]

"Couold it have to do with the system Fonts interacting with LV fonts?  "

Yes, I have seen the same thing when moving my app to a machine were the customer new how to change the font size.

Ben

[Clueless1]

Got no clue!

[altenbach]

Go to the windows control for Display properties and select font size=normal.

You can also change the default diagram font for new VIs in LabVIEW, but it won't affect existing VIs. You would need to e.g. select all objects on the diagram and press "ctrl-" (control+minus) a few times to make the current fonts all smaller manually. I don't recommend this though.

Message Edited by altenbach on 02-08-2008 10:27 AM

[smercurio_fc]

You also mentioned that you had changed the DPI settings, which I presume you did by going to Display Properties->Settings->Advanced->General. The default is 96 DPI usually. You should change it back to "Normal" and see the effect.

Interestingly enough, in some cases having the DPI at a setting other than "Normal" will cause graphical glitches in GIF images on a web page with Internet Explorer.

[Clueless1]

By experimantation I've pretty much learned much more than I really wanted to about fonts and LV.

Now here's the last problem.  It might be a bug.  At the very least, it's an annoyance.

Place a property node on the diagram.  Wire a strictly typed vi reference to it.  The banner changes to "VI(Strict)".

Now, after all this font stuff, all of my property nodes that are wired to strictly typed vi references have banners that say "vi interface type 0".  This takes up a lot more space on the block diagram and really makes a mess of all of my block diagrams. 

I also discovered this.  If you right click the property node that says "vi(strict)" and choose nameFormat->LongNames.   The banner says "vi interface type 0".  Change your mind and choose nameFormat->ShortNames, and guess what?  It doesn't go back to "vi(strict)". 

So how can I put the cork back in the bottle?


Message Edited by Clueless1 on 02-08-2008 01:23 PM

Message Edited by Clueless1 on 02-08-2008 01:23 PM