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It's fine if NI hears it 100 times. They should hear it 1000 times. I was under no illusion that it hadn't been suggested, nor does it seem worth caring about. It's a major design flaw that they've kept in place intentionally.
What I am saying here is pure rumor that I've gotten out of various people with NI. I am not saying it as fact.
The problem is that LabVIEW is currently drawn in a bitmap format. That is obviously not good for zoom. I have heard there was an effort to change to a vector based graphics format, which would allow for zoom. If there will be a zoom, it will be MANY years down the road since you are looking at a change to the core of LabVIEW.
There are only two ways to tell somebody thanks: Kudos and Marked Solutions Unofficial Forum Rules and Guidelines "Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God" - 2 Corinthians 3:5
Basically, to rephrase what crossrulz said, NI understands why people want this, but it's too difficult to do AT THE MOMENT with the more than 25 years of code that LV has accumulated.
I'm with you, Paul. My thought is that there should be a zoom IN, but not way to zoom OUT more than what we already see.
There are only two ways to tell somebody thanks: Kudos and Marked Solutions Unofficial Forum Rules and Guidelines "Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God" - 2 Corinthians 3:5
Has been written over and over that a "zoom IN only" tool would make most of us perfectly happy. But NI seems deaf also to this reduced request, even if a "zoom IN tool" would not create any kind of concern about misuse.
This let me think that there are some tecnichal difficulties that NI do not want to deal with (By now? Forever? Hard to say).
So I want to stress that I would be perfectly happy with a "zoom IN only" tool, limited to integer magnification values, easily feasible even in the bitmap.
And you?
At leastit would be agood starting point,and a great helpfor people withimpaired vision.
My understanding was that the problem was not specifically with using bitmapped images, which wouldn't look as nice, but more with code which is dispersed in all kinds of places in LV and assumes that each point on the diagram is equal to one pixel on the screen and one pixel that the mouse reports. Presumably, finding all those places and fixing them properly is the thing that is difficult to do. Working on that means not working on other things.
If you really care that much about the zoom, you could try using the OS magnifier or other magnifying software, as discussed in the other idea.
