You can fix the font to whatever you want. LabVIEW, by
default, uses the system fonts. However, if you explicitly select a
text element and select a specific font (not Application, Dialog,
etc.), it will not change. “Safe” fonts on Windows are Arial, Times New
Roman, and Symbol. All Windows systems ship with these fonts and it is
highly unlikely anyone will delete them (though possible).
To fix the font on your application, select everything on your panel
and change to the font of your choice. It appeared just about
everything used the same font, so this operation should take you less
than a minute. If you do want some font size or style variation, do it
after the intial set.
However, I would NOT recommend you not do this unless you
really need to. As mentioned earlier, good UI design requires extra
space for larger fonts than you have on your machine. Unless you are
the only one using your application, count on others wanting different
fonts. If someone has changed the default fonts on a system, there is
usually a reason. You may also want to replace all your controls with
the system (dialog) versions. This ensure that the colors, borders,
etc. will update properly with the OS. Of course, if you want your app
to look like a LabVIEW app instead of a Windows app, I certainly won't
argue with you :).
If your LEDs are resizing with the text (they can), you can eliminate this behavior by doing the following
- Pop up on the LED and choose Advanced->Customize… This will open the control customization window.
- Pop up on the LED in the window and select Visible Items->Boolean Text to show the boolean text. If this is already checked, don't select it again.
- Pop up on the LED again and make sure that Multiple Text Strings is unchecked and Lock Text in Center is showing as an option.
- Hide the boolean text again (Visible Items->Boolean Text).
- Save this control as a strict typedef so you can update your other LEDs much easier.
- Select File->Apply Changes to apply your changes to the original VI, then close the control
Your control size should now be independent of font size. Do a
replace operation on the rest of your LEDs to make them identical.
Names, descriptions, and tips should not be effected, but size will be.
