Mystery box

[MichaelAivaliotis]

What is the purpose of this box?

[greenfish3]

Hi Michael,

Looks like it is a field to add a description of the event you are creating. 

Best,

[MichaelAivaliotis]

How can you tell?

[Ludwig72]

Good finding - the box description 

5. ???

is missing.

[greenfish3]

So it's missing a label but to confirm the field is for the description I typed in something and found the text gets added to the VI description field of the request VI.

[joerg.hampel]

Hey Michael,

thanks for giving the new version a go and reporting this issue back here!

On my system (1440x900, 100%), the dialog box looks like this:

 

Could you please share your OS, screen resolution, scaling, and anything else you think might be helpful? Thank you!!

[MichaelAivaliotis]

Hmm, the plot thickens. I'm running Windows 11, 1920x1200 resolution with 100% scaling.

I notice that Item #4 is wrapping on my UI, but not on yours. I wonder if that is a clue.

[Darren · Accepted solution]

It's a font difference between the systems. Here's the word "These" in item #4 on Joerg's image:

And here's the same from Michael's image:

That extra pixel between the "T" and the "h" is just enough to push the text onto the next line. Since the free label containing #4 and #5 in the instructions is sized to 3 lines, the #5 text is being pushed to a 4th line that isn't visible.

Given that these are hard-coded fonts, I assume there's some Windows setting that causes them to render differently. I don't know what that setting is.

At any rate, I think the fix for this would probably be just to widen the #4/#5 free label a tiny bit to accommodate the extra pixel.