Color & fonts (labview 6.1)

[Se]

I want to create a good front pannel using different colors and fonts in different sections of the pannel. How can I do that?

[Joey Oravec]

"Se" wrote in message
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> I want to create a good front pannel using different colors and fonts
> in different sections of the pannel. How can I do that?

Usually I don't like lots of colors and fonts, mainly because most
programmers have little graphic design skill. If you still feel adventurous,
try this:

- Make some text. This can be in a text box, using the text tool, or
creating a label.
- Select that text
- Choose the font dialog, shortcut ctrl-0 (zero). It's in the toolbar.
- Select the color, size, font, etc.

-joey

[mikeporter]

A good source is a presentation that Rob Dye (I think) has presented at a couple NI Weeks. It is about how to design interfaces to they ar pleasing to look and are easy to use. There was also some interesting background information, like 20% of all males have some measureable level of color blindness...

In any case, the presentation should be available on NI's website somewhere.

Mike...

[Greg_McKaskle2]

> A good source is a presentation that Rob Dye (I think) has presented
> at a couple NI Weeks. It is about how to design interfaces to they ar
> pleasing to look and are easy to use. There was also some interesting
> background information, like 20% of all males have some measureable
> level of color blindness...
>

You'll be a bit more successful searaching for either Christina Rogers
or Greg McKaskle, and I'm pretty sure the percentage is 12%. The
presentation has several times been called The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

This year something similar will be held called VI Talk. We'd like to
analyze and fix-up real VIs, but we of course need some guinea pig VIs
in order to do this. If you have some troublesome VIs, consider
emailing them to
gam@ni.com and list what the issues are.

Greg McKaskle

[mikeporter]

Exactly the one I was thinking of. Thanks Greg...

Mike...

[Se]

where can I search for these two people?

[paul_s]

i think this is what you're looking for

http://zone.ni.com/devzone/learningcenter.nsf/03f7c60f17aad210862567a90054a26c/31e92019625d489886256931007940cb?OpenDocument