Size of object on the front panel

[hellolv]

I am trying to make the size of objects(boolean control, button) on the front panel the same throughout all my tabs, but they always come out a little different than the way they look on my laptop.


Is there any way to do a preview or ensure the sizes are the same across everything?


Thanks.

[mikeporter]

You can programatically change the size of objects. In addition if you create the display objects as strict typedefs, instantiations of the same typedef will always be the same size. What do you mean by, "...they always come out a little different than the way they look on my laptop..."?

Mike...

[altenbach]

One typical problem ocurs if the two machines have a different desktop theme/font setting.

See e.g. the links in: http://zone.ni.com/reference/en-XX/help/371361B-01/TOC35.htm

For example, it is recommended to select "small font" in windows. See the section on "Resolution and Font Differences" in http://zone.ni.com/reference/en-XX/help/371361B-01/lvconcepts/porting_among_platforms/.

[tst]

If the objects come out different sizes on different computers, it is most likely a font issue. If you're using the varying fonts, like application font, you can set up the same font in the INI file.

You can also set objects to be the same size using the resize menus.

[hellolv]

How do I change the font setting in the INI file?

[DFGray]

The easiest way is to use Tools->Options->Fonts from the LabVIEW GUI.  You can then set the system fonts to anything you want.  After you have done this on one machine, open your INI file (it is in the same directory as the LabVIEW executable) with any text editor and copy the corresponding entries to another file.  Add these entries to the INI files on any machines you want to lock to font.  You will probably run into issues if you are supporting different platforms (Windows and Mac or Mac and Linux, for example), since the fonts you want may not be available on both platforms.  There are Windows fonts available for both Mac and Linux platforms, so this can be somewhat ameliorated.