If others outside NI have worked out how to magnify the screen, why not put the same concept/method into LabVIEW. Everyone's happy - easy impleentation by NI, users get zoom at their finger tips.
You're assuming the implementation is easy, but it might not be. Also, magnifiers magnify the pixels and translate the mouse movement of anything that's under that magnifer window. I haven't seen any that know how to magnify only a specific window (or part of a window), which requires more complex logic, although I can't say I looked.
This type of idea has been around since at least LabVIEW 6.0. I would not be surprised that it started when 5 was around. Crazy variations of the idea were discussed... I'm sure some people remember the LabVIEW 3D idea back in the days of 7.1.
I simply bought a larger monitor due to poor eye-sight and learned to create all the code within a single screen. My code has improved by doing so. Unfortunately not my vision..
I find the most annoying part of not having being able to zoom is trying to find the right pixel to put the cursor on to grab a certain handle. I can't tell you how many times I have tried to resize an array constant and end up resizing the elements instead. And changing the size of a tick mark while customizing a control is enough to drive me mad.
It is fine without zoom with old computer with low screen resolutions. But as the screens are getting better in resolution and that laptops screens are quite small like 13", then it become very difficult. I understand about bad programming using zoom out. I don't mind too much about not being able to zoom out further, but I really need to zoom in!!!!!! It is very difficult especially if you have written your own subVI and only put text on it. And there are many other students who only get small laptops when they do the project, not everyone can afford a bigger screen just to save their eyes!!! And I am speaking in behalf of many many students who only get small laptops in college!!!
I could notagree more. I use a high resolution display, currently 2560x1440, and I hope to upgrade to 4k at some point. I have a tablet with 330dpi. For reading and editing texts, large data sets, and technical drawings, such a screen is absolutely fabulous.
For LabVIEW, however, it is a nightmare. The icons are too small to recognise, the text is hard to read, the help is hard to read, and pins and wires are very very difficult to hit with the mouse. These problems also means that I am highly reluctant to use LabVIEW in teaching, because it clearly fails even basic accessibility requirements.
High resolution screens are becoming both affordable and common, and most of my software tools are perfectly usable. All of them have improved a lot in recent years, except LabVIEW. You cannot stop progress, and you will have to address this issue.
