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Lookout 6.2 screen resolutions

This subject was raised a while back for Ver 4.0.1, and I'm wondering if anything has changed.

In Lookout 6.2, I am trying to build control panels that can utilize all (or most) of the customer's monitor's screen area. My laptop has a screen resolution of 1280 X 800. My client's (desktop) monitor has a res of  1280 X 1024. If I try to build a Lookout control panel with a res that exceeds my laptop's max, I cannot scroll to see (and therefore edit) portions of the panel. If I move my Integrator's license to the customer's computer to build the panel THERE, when I then try to run it on my laptop the same thing happens; I cannot see or access portions of the panel. If I build the panel on my laptop (in 1280 X 800) then run it on the customer's monitor, it occupies only a fraction of his screen. This leaves a lot of wasted screen space I could really use (read NEED to use). Short of lugging around a desktop monitor (impossible for me), is there a way around this?

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We have not changed this behaviour. The panel size is restricted to the monitor size. We are going to remove the panel size limit, but not in current version. Sorry, I don't have a workaround now.

 

Ryan Shi
National Instruments
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This has always been a very annoying problem to me.

It doesn't seem like it would be too complicated for NI Lookout to add scroll bars but what do I know.

 

My workaround is to remote desktop to the computer that has the Lookout running at the desired resolution.

I use VNCUltra and select the "auto scaling" option.

If the resolution discrepancy is too vast like 1920 x 1080 to 1024 x 768, the text will get too small.

In this case do not select auto scaling and use the scroll bars.

 

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