Allow FP Zoom In/Out at Run-Time

[Cepera]

These days, computers have drastically different monitor resolutions. As a result, the same LabVIEW-based executable FP will look tiny on some monitors and will overflow other monitors. Currently LabVIEW has the feature called "scale all objects on front panel...", but this feature does not work reliably: just try to resize a panel several times back and forth. Also this feature does not work with complex typedefs.

Zooming the front panel in and out should address this problem. Such programs as MS Word and Adobe Acrobat have this feature:

 (showing this control should be optional)

The zoom function does not necessarily have to be continous: discrete values like 50%, 75%, 100%, 150% and 200% will suffice. It is crucial though that this feature be available to users of the stand-alone executable and that it be acessible programmatically ("get monitor resolution + get FP size => set FP zoom factor).

As others have pointed out, the same would be nice for the block diagram, just for developers' convenience, but in this case, my primary concern is convenience of end users.

[altenbach]

This idea is a partial duplicate. See e.g.: Add a zoom function (yes, I said zoom. So sue me)

(see my comment here for the front panel)

[Cepera]

@altenbach: Yes, I know. I just wanted to point out its importance for end users, not just for developers. I guess I should have just added this request as a comment to previously posted ideas.

[Darren]

Duplicate of http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Add-a-zoom-function-yes-I-said-zoom-So-sue-me/idi-p/91...

[tst]

I don't think this is a duplicate, as it refers to run-time zoom. Personally, I'm not sure the idea makes much sense, as that type of zoom is generally available in document-centric programs, where the zoomed area is just the area of the document itself, something which is probably hard to generalize, but it certainly might be interesting to have each pane have a separate zoom property.

[Darren]

This idea is being declined for the same reason that the other idea (that I linked as a duplicate) is being declined. I figured since it was the same reason, I'd just close it as Duplicate. If y'all would rather I close it as Declined, and copy/paste the decline reason from the other idea, I could do that too.