String constants resized - Bug

[csalwen]

Has anyone found anything out about this problem?  I'm having it on many different vis with Labview 2009 on windows XP.  I'm constantly having to fix the size to see anything.

[jcarmody]

It's baaaaaack.

LabVIEW 2011, WinXP

[SteveChandler]

Yes it is. I posted about this on the Case Select Tool forum on Lava. I blamed the plugin because this only happened to me after installing the tool. It is the only plugin that I have installed.

I ruled out the entire RCF.

Turn off the RCF if you have it running. Open the VI block diagram of the attached VI. Do not change the selected case. Highlight the case structure with case "A One" selected and press CTRL-1. String constants in the other cases are resized to one character. Close but do not save the VI. Open it again and cycle through all the cases until you have seen the contents of each. Highlighting the case structure and pressing CTRL-1 does not resize the constants. Close and do not save the VI. Open it again and cycle through and view some but not all cases. Highlight the case structure and press CTRL-1. The cases you have not viewed will have the string constants resized to one character.

One other thing. Selecting any piece of code and pressing CTRL-1 marks the VI dirty. Explain changes says "The text format of a block diagram object was changed. This is just a cosmetic change."

Windows 7, LV2011

[SteveChandler]

The workaround I have come up with is to use a different RCF activation key sequence. The resize problem happens with left ctrl1, 2, 3, 4. Didn't try the others because this is no longer a one handed operation. I used CTRL-ALT to activate RCF.

[Edit: I verified that LCTRL-1 resizes not yet viewed NUMERIC constants as mentioned earlier by TCPlomp

[jcarmody]

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@Steve Chandler wrote:

[...] Turn off the RCF if you have it running. Open the VI block diagram of the attached VI. Do not change the selected case. Highlight the case structure with case "A One" selected and press CTRL-1.  [...]

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I followed your instructions but didn't get the same result - none of the String constants resized. I use the Grave accent (`) to activate the RCF, but did use the default CTRL-1 while discovering that the RCF doesn't auto-start in LabVIEW 2011.  This helps explain why String constants resized on me.

[SteveChandler]

Are you using left control? Also are you using Windows 7 and LabVIEW 32 bit? Does pressing LCTRL-1 with the case structure selected mark the VI dirty?

[jcarmody]

Are you using left control? Yes

Also are you using Windows 7 No, Windows XP and LabVIEW 32 bit? Yes, LabVIEW 2011

Does pressing LCTRL-1 with the case structure selected mark the VI dirty? Yes

[SteveChandler]

Hmm. I wonder what LCTRL-1 does other than activate RCF. Maybe it is not the best default.

[fdinoff]

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@Steve Chandler wrote:
Hmm. I wonder what LCTRL-1 does other than activate RCF. Maybe it is not the best default.

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LCTRL+1 selects Application Font from the font selector or whatever its called.