topic Re: New Control Labels are bolded in LabVIEW

New Control Labels are bolded

RobertVR — Fri, 12 Mar 2004 20:54:16 GMT

I place a new control on a front panel and the label is bolded. It just started doing this so what did I do to cause this?

I have worked in Labview for years currently using Labview 7.0.

Re: New Control Labels are bolded

Dr._Imad — Fri, 12 Mar 2004 21:31:57 GMT

some fonts are set depending on how they are in windows settings (assuming Windows OS).. Check on these settings
Also, in Labview menu, select
Tools
Options and then make sure the fonts are not set to bold. You may have pressed some keyboard key that automated that

Re: New Control Labels are bolded

RobertVR — Fri, 12 Mar 2004 23:16:05 GMT

Already checked Options/Fonts and they are still default in Labview. Using Windows 2000 where would you think to could look? The label font is the standard Labview application font but is bold,

Re: New Control Labels are bolded

Ben — Sat, 13 Mar 2004 16:03:52 GMT

Go to

Tools>>> Options >>> Font

Select application font.

click Font Style

Click panel default

ok

ok

drop a new control.

Ben

Re: New Control Labels are bolded

Dr._Imad — Sat, 13 Mar 2004 18:40:31 GMT

Once you checked that the LabView fonts are set to "plain",
Tools>>>>Options>>>>Fonts>>Font Style
then the issue should be solved.

If not, go to windows settings>>>appearance
Then select the item# icon, menu, menu bar etc..
I am not sure which is the one to check,
but, for each item selected, check on the corresponding font that it is not set to Bold

Hope this helps

Imad

Re: New Control Labels are bolded

RobertVR — Mon, 15 Mar 2004 16:24:57 GMT

Tools>>>Options>>>Fonts are all use defaults. Changed this for application font and it changed the VALUE part of the control but not the label. Changed it back no effect and it still bolds the labels

Appearance settings are the same as another windows 2000 system which does not bold label when controls are placed on front panel.

Any other ideas?

Re: New Control Labels are bolded

RobertVR — Mon, 15 Mar 2004 16:31:53 GMT

It worked! Thanks for your help. Tried everything else in the Font options but this.

Re: New Control Labels are bolded

Greg_McKaskle2 — Tue, 16 Mar 2004 00:18:58 GMT

> It worked! Thanks for your help. Tried everything else in the Font
> options but this.

I'm coming in on this late, but I'd guess that what was actually changed
was the Current Font definition. If you select something and change the
font, you apply it to the selection. If nothing in selected, you are
changing the font specification that will affect things that adapt the
current font, like free labels and the name labels of controls. So, if
you have nothing selected and you go to the menus and choose Bold,
subsequent free labels and name labels will drop bolded. Ditto for
making the font be Sand or some such. To put it back, have nothing
selected and choose App font or uncheck the other setting.

Greg McKaskle

Re: New Control Labels are bolded

stevem181 — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 06:30:23 GMT

This just happend to me - 8 years later!

LabVIEW 2012 running in Virtualbox.

The fix: Remove the "B" in the LabVIEW ini file entry: BDFont= "0" 15 B

Not sure how it got changed.

Re: New Control Labels are bolded

pjlaskey — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 23:45:09 GMT

... and 9 years beyond that this is still a potential pitfall. Since this is still an issue and since I found the solutions to be cryptic, I decided to add on to this very old post (17 years!).

I just had to solve it in LabVIEW 2020. The default font for new labels will be set to bold if you press CTRL-B with nothing selected. To switch it back, do the same; with nothing selected, press CTRL-B.

Re: New Control Labels are bolded

wiebe@CARYA — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 09:33:02 GMT

@pjlaskey wrote:

I just had to solve it in LabVIEW 2020. The default font for new labels will be set to bold if you press CTRL-B with nothing selected. To switch it back, do the same; with nothing selected, press CTRL-B.

CTRL+B (with nothing selected) doesn't change anything for me...

Does this "bold default font" match with the application font settings in the Font Dialog: