Tip strips for resizing front panel objects have disappeared

[JackDunaway]

All,

A lot of my work is done customizing front panel objects, and I heavily rely upon the tip strip that shows the object's size in pixels as you are resizing. This tip strip no longer shows up! I have not made any environment changes or software changes (to my knowledge), and "Options>>Front Panel>>Show tip strips on front panel controls" is currently checked. I have restarted LabVIEW and rebooted the computer.

Suggestions?

Best regards,

Jack

[JB]

No idea what is going on. Are you using two monitors ?

Meanwhile, you might be interested in another way to set/see the size of a FP element :

1. Select one (or several) element
2. Click the Resize Objects button in the toolbar of LV
3. Click Set Width and Heigth...
4. See/edit the size

See here for more details.

Message Edité par JB le 10-24-2008 04:43 PM

[JackDunaway]

JB and All,

Thanks for the quick response. The resizing dialog is definitely a more powerful way to resize one or more objects, but the sizing tip strip is still invaluable for the quick and dirty resize.

I have found the reason that the tip strips disappeared - I added "UseUnicode=TRUE" to the bottom of my LabVIEW.ini file. When I remove the tag, the tip strips appear again in the development environment. By the way, I think that this tag wipes out all tip strips, not just the object resizing ones.

Can someone explain this behavior as either expected or as a bug? If this question is answered or a report is filed to R&D, I will flag this issue as resolved.

Regards,

Jack

[Justin_P]

Hi Mechelecengr,

I modified my ini file and saw the same behavior as you did.  I have not been able to find out from the developers if this is an issue or not.  It should be noted that unicode is not officially supported in LabVIEW.  When you enter the unsupported ini key "UseUnicode=TRUE", there is no guarantee that everything will work as expected.  I will make sure that this is brought to the attention of R&D but I'm not sure if they will act on the information.

Justin P

[JackDunaway]

Thanks a million, Justin. Please keep us posted on R&D's response to this issue.

Best regards,

Jack

[JB]

Hi Jack,

Thank you for your feedback about this surprising behaviour !

Regards

[Justin_P]

I was able to talk to R&D about this and they say that it is expected behavior.  You could make a product suggestion to make this a supported feature and to include tip strip functionality, but R&D does not see this as an issue.