Icon editor Anti aliased text

[Yamaeda]

The new icon editor is a big step forward compared to the old one, but there's still room for improvement.

One big issue is using anti aliased/sub pixeled text, like Tahoma.

As the picture shows, text written in text fields are AA'd towards white, not the actual color (top row), but when writing the text directly in the picture it gets AA'd towards the background, making it alot prettier and easier to read (2nd row).

All text should ofcourse be AA'd towards the color shown, i guess it's an issue with the merging of the icon.

regards

/Albert

[thols]

Is it the same in LabVIEW 2014? I fiddled around a bit with the NI-Icon editor in lv 2010 (no BD's available in LV2013)  and saw that in the NI Icon editor sub-vi DrawPictureOrigin.vi, the transparency is set, but if I just bypass that, the transparency is correct, and the antialiasing works correctly: the antialiasing is done towards transparent, which works on all colors. Dare I call it a bug? I have seen some reports with text-rendering-issues in the icon editor and perhaps this has already been reported. I guess it must have been reported since it is so obvious.

[thols]

I downloaded the source files for LV2013 and tested and the issue is the same. If you just open "lv_icon.lvlib:draw Picture based on Origin.vi" and bypass "lv_icon.lvlib:Apply Transparency.vi", the transparency will be correct. Funny that "apply transparency" actually removes the transparency