MenuStrip font size

[bienieck]

Does anyone knows how to change font size in the MenuStrip?

I want to replace standard LabVIEW runtime menu with .NET MenuStrip to have a posibility to make it bigger and more suitable for touchscreens. MSDN said that MenuStrip has a font property which "Gets or sets the font used to display text in the control" but it looks like read only property (I'm unable to change it to write)...

[Martiko]

Hello bienieck,

I checked in LabVIEW 2016 and everything seems to work fine for me. After Creating MenuStrip via Constructor Node, I place Property Node (.NET), choose property Font, right click on the property name and I can Change All To Write.

[J-M]

Instead using the menu strip, maybe you could increase the size of the font of the Labview runtime menu (not that much, because the menu has a determined height) with the key:
SystemFont="Arial Unicode MS" 30
in the application.ini

[bienieck]

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@Martiko wrote:

Hello bienieck,

I checked in LabVIEW 2016 and everything seems to work fine for me. After Creating MenuStrip via Constructor Node, I place Property Node (.NET), choose property Font, right click on the property name and I can Change All To Write.

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But then, can you put in example "size" property and change it to write?

[bienieck]

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@J-M wrote:

Instead using the menu strip, maybe you could increase the size of the font of the Labview runtime menu

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I tried this but I feel like it is not very elegant and it is not customizable enough.

[Martiko · Accepted solution]

@Martiko wrote:

(...) I checked in LabVIEW 2016 and everything seems to work fine for me (...).

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@bienieck wrote:

But then, can you put in example "size" property and change it to write?

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Hi bieneck,

It seems to be working with "Size" exactly the same as with "Font" for me.

May I help you any further?

[bienieck]

Oh, you were right. I thought that I need to use it this way:

And this way I can't change "size" to write.

It seems that I just don't know how to use it 🙂

[aa@ray]

This works for LabVIEW 2024. Thank you.

[aa@ray]

When Application Builder creates an executable, it also creates two additional files; one .ini file and one .aliases file

Edit the Application.ini file to change the menu font and font size:

Original menu:

Original Application.ini file:

Added one line to the .ini file:

and the menu looks like this:

 This works on LV2024 with menus created using the Edit --> Run-Time Menu... command

Alejandro A

[zou]

The menu bar on the front panel is NOT a Windows object.  There is no guarantee NI will 100% honor Windows settings.

Every thing on the front panel (That includes menu bar, tool bar, and scroll bars...  Except the title bar and 10-pixel edge on the left, right and bottom sides) are draw by LabVIEW.