How to deal with way oversized front panels?

[altenbach]

Opening the VI attached here fills my entire screen (2560x1440!) with an empty front panel area and all window borders as well as the task bar are unreachable. This front panel seems to be orders of magnitude larger than my screen and the window origin is way outside in the upper left.

I am trapped!!!! Sure there are some windows shortcuts to interact with window sizing and positioning etc., but who knows these...).

Shouldn't LabVIEW somehow place the window in a more accessible location? This is silly! Doesn't this behavor violate some UI gudelines?

[Darin.K]

I feel really, really terrible saying this.  Maybe I shouldn't. 

You....could...umm....Tile...the....windows...using...Ctrl-

I can't do it!  Oh what the heck..

try Ctrl-T to tile the windows.

I feel dirty now, time to shower.

[Yamaeda]

r-click taskbar --> cascade windows.

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[kbbersch]

Windows 7?  Right-click on the preview from the task bar and select Move.  Once you start moving the window using the cursor keys the window attaches to your mouse cursor and you cna move the window so the top-left corner is on the screen.  after that just resize.

[CMal]

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@Darin.K wrote:

I feel really, really terrible saying this.  Maybe I shouldn't. 

You....could...umm....Tile...the....windows...using...Ctrl-

I can't do it!  Oh what the heck..

try Ctrl-T to tile the windows.

I feel dirty now, time to shower.

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You can also use Ctrl-/ to maximize the window.  This is a bit less ugly than using Ctrl-T.

[altenbach]

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@Yamaeda wrote:

r-click taskbar --> cascade windows.

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@kbbersch wrote:

Right-click on the preview from the task bar and select Move.  

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As I said, I cannot get to the taskbar, even if I move the mouse all the way to the bottom of the screen. The front panel covers everything!

[altenbach]

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Darin.K wrote:

I feel dirty now, time to shower.

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Yes, there are ways, but try to even get to a browser window to look up these shortcuts (well, alt-tab works, but again we need to remember at least one of these key combinations).

My favorite is alt-F4, of course 😄

This is like the browser exploits from the early internet era and should not happen in 2014.

[kbbersch]

The windows key will bring up the task bar.  Then just click on a blank area of the task bar to get rid of the Start Menu and you're good to go.

[altenbach]

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CMal wrote: You can also use Ctrl-/ to maximize the window.  This is a bit less ugly than using Ctrl-T.

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Yes, I was looking for exactly that, but did not remember the shortcut....

[kbbersch]

I like the Ctrl-/ answer the best.  I learned a lot of Windows shortcuts I didn't know.