LabVIEW

cancel
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 

Tab control resizes unexpectedly

Solved!
Go to solution

Hi,

I'm facing an unexpected issue that  I cannot solve.

In my project I have a tab control that fits the whole screen (it runs maximized). It contains two tabs.

Here is a screenshot of the top left corner:

LeftTopInitial.png

As you can see, the tab control fits nicely close to the edge of the screen.

At some point in the code, I resize the scale, max and min of a silver Gauge using the following:

scale.PNG

Here is a screenshot of the gauge:

Knob.png

When it is resized, the width/height of the tab control changes for an unknown reason. See below the same top left corner:

LeftTopAfter.png

As you can see it moved left, the word "Bluetooth" is gone!

Nothing else seems to have changed in the GUI.

I used the "Bounds" property node of the tab control and realized there was a change in width. There is also in change in the position of the tab control. However, bounds is read only and I cannot programmatically resize the tab control.

My questions would be:

1- why is the silver gauge modifying the whole frame?

2- More importantly: how can I prevent the gauge from changing the size of the tab control? Is there a way to lock all the dimensional properties of the tab control?

Thanks,

 

Alex

0 Kudos
Message 1 of 3
(3,369 Views)
Solution
Accepted by topic author shinagan2

What I would find to be most unexpected is the Tab control behaving itself.  I would try turning off Auto Grow (right-click > Advanced) and see if that helps, or try using the System Tab instead and hoping for the best.

Message 2 of 3
(3,354 Views)

Yep that worked! Thanks!

0 Kudos
Message 3 of 3
(3,349 Views)