I have a serious font problem with LV8.6 under XP SP3. After building the exe, on the same computer, I got small squares instead of fonts both on the diagram and on the front panel. I tried to changed the fonts, nothing !
sorry, it does not help. I removed a lot of fonts from my system (I don't need them, so...) still does not change a thing. The small squares are supposed o be "Application Font", I changed this to Arial and nothing happened. I am starting to get quite upset about this since I can not modify my application.... There must be a way to put a font by default ?
I had a similar problem: the executable had different fonts than the developped vi.
Each .exe has its own .ini file which has the same name as your main.vi (exe). LabVIEW will create this .ini file during building the application if you haven´t configured one. In this file there´s a section with the main vi´s name. You can define the fonts in this .ini file. E.g.
MyMainVI.ini
[MyMainVI] appFont="MS Sans Serif" 13 dialogFont="MS Sans Serif" 13 systemFont="MS Sans Serif" 13 FPFont="MS Sans Serif" 13 BDFont="MS Sans Serif" 13
Try to write your own .ini and place it at the same location where you put your VI (e.g. MyMainVI.vi).
If I understand well, you had your VI. Then you created an executable, and since, your VI's diagram show those squares instead of text. Is that correct?
Would it be possible that you post your VI on this thread?
sorry, I can't post it. I will try to write a small one that reproduces the behaviour. The funny thing is that when I am trying to write on the labels with the small squares, what I am adding is readable but not the rest.
I can not reproduce the bug on a smaller vi but I really can not get rid of the small squares. I copied the vi on another computer where I have another licence of LV8.6 (Win XP, SP3, french), I see the same squares on the block diagram. I installed the 8.6f1 patch which is supposed to repair some front problem : nothing....
