Font panel ad block panel wrapped and overlapped

[xins.fys]

I have made a VI on a lab computer with XP OS and Labview 2011. 

Now when I move it to my work computer with W10 OS and Labview 2015, objects and fonts on both front panel and block panel wrapped up and overlapped. I show the front panel here, but it is worse on the block panel since nothing can be read.

For smaller VI, I can live with it. But for a large VI, this means I cannot work it on my work computer. In general, when I start Labview program on m work computer, everything is quite small and the tool bar cannot be displayed completely. The resolution of my work computer is 3200*1800 as recommended and I have scaled the size of text and apps to 200%. However, this does not seem to work for Labview. 

Anyone has a clue? Thanks a lot.

[Bob_Schor · Accepted solution]

This is a known issue.  It is possible to set Font Sizes, but when you work on multiple machines with vastly different Screen Resolutions, LabVIEW endeavors to make the programming environment (meaning the sizes of Block Diagrams and Front Panels) appropriate and pleasing to the user.  Newer versions of Windows allowed the User to have an insanely-high Screen Resolution (like 3200 * 1800) and compensated for that by letting you "blow up" Windows Desktop icons by 200%.  This doesn't "play well" with LabVIEW.  What I typically do on my laptop (which has this "resolution madness") is to set the Resolution to half-size, e.g. 1600*900.  This has the beneficial Side Effect of encouraging smaller Block Diagrams which can be achieved by using more sub-VIs which generally leads to better LabVIEW Code (if you know what you are doing) ...

Bob Schor

[xins.fys]

Thanks Bob Schor! This works.Though I may have to switch resolutions between while using Labview and other programs. But it seems a solution.  

[Bob_Schor]

If you aren't using your screen to watch Blu-Ray movies, you should see no difference between 3200*1800, 200% Icon/Text settings and 1600*900, 100% Icon/Text settings.  My wife (who doesn't do LabVIEW, but does lots of other things with her PC) and I have set our machines to "half" resolution and have been using them that way for 4 years and two years, respectively.

Bob Schor