How do I keep text aligned when running on a smaller monitor than my development monitor?

[Neumannium]

Hello all,

I'm creating my VIs on a 17in monitor. The unit that has the teststand and labview run-time engines on it, however, has a much smaller LCD screen.

In VI Properties, I've tried checking the three boxes in several combinations. Either my text on the front panel is aligned, but the panel isn't centered, or it's centered, but the text is horribly misaligned.

How do I get it so the text resizes and stays aligned during the transfer between machines?

Thanks,

Dave Neumann

[Labviewguru]

Dave,

Change the monitor settings on your development system to match the resolution on the target system. That is the absolute best way to do it, hands down. Sure, it makes it difficult to make diagrams, but you can always change back and forth, or even use two monitors. Also, try connecting that monitor to your system through a second video card.

[DougD]

Neumannium

One thing that might help you is to use the FIXEDSYS or a similar
monospaced font for your application. Most fonts used by windows
these days are proportionally spaced which makes it difficult to line
up the characters in columns between row to row. It used to be easier
back in the old DOS days when all font characters where the same size.

Monospaced fonts aren't very pretty generally, but they are a lot
easier to line up and work with.


Douglas De Clue
LabVIEW developer
ddeclue@bellsouth.net

Neumannium wrote in message news:<5065000000080000004A520000-1023576873000@exchange.ni.com>...
> Hello all,
>
> I'm creating my VIs on a 17in monitor. The unit that has the
> teststand and labview run-time engines on it, however, has a mu
ch
> smaller LCD screen.
>
> In VI Properties, I've tried checking the three boxes in several
> combinations. Either my text on the front panel is aligned, but the
> panel isn't centered, or it's centered, but the text is horribly
> misaligned.
>
> How do I get it so the text resizes and stays aligned during the
> transfer between machines?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave Neumann