LabVIEW Distorting Front and Back Panel Objects After File Renaming

[rpbrn]

Hi everyone,

I’m working on a large LabVIEW project and recently needed to rename several files used in it. As expected, LabVIEW made the process more complicated than necessary, and I spent several hours resolving the resulting broken references and conflicts.

However, I’ve also encountered an unexpected issue:

After the renaming, LabVIEW has distorted the sizes and positions of objects on both the front and back panels of all VIs in the project.

This has caused text to overlap, labels to be cut off, and controls/indicators to be misaligned.

I’ve attached a PDF with three examples illustrating the problem.

Has anyone experienced this before, and is there a quick way to fix it without manually adjusting each VI?

Thanks in advance for any advice!

Best regards,

Raphaël

[BertMcMahan]

A couple tips for you- first, if you rename something, do it from WITHIN LabVIEW. You can rename individual files in the Save As menu and it (usually) won't break a bunch of links, as long as everything's in the same Project file. You can also move things using that same dialog- select "Rename" then just pick a new path. You can also do this with drag-and-drop from the Files tab of the Project, or you can right click and say "Move on disk". Renaming things OUTSIDE of LabVIEW basically always breaks stuff and requires manual fixing.

Regarding your issues- it looks like either your fonts changed or you zoomed in. Are you using the (relatively new) Zoom feature in LabVIEW? It can make some fonts squirrely and is but one reason I have it turned off.

Regarding your "stuff overlapping" issue, I don't know why renaming files would do that. Were there any other changes? New PC, switching Windows versions, reinstalling LabVIEW, etc?

Fonts can change sometimes depending on your system settings. See this link (and the "Related" at the bottom): https://knowledge.ni.com/KnowledgeArticleDetails?id=kA00Z0000019RQISA2&l=en-US

That might give you some ideas. Otherwise, check Tools -> Options -> Environment and see what Fonts is set to. Mine is set to "Application Font" and has "Use default" checked. This sets the font for your application environment.

[altenbach]

It is not obvious what you did, but renaming files outside of LabVIEW is typically not a good idea. If you rename them within the project, conflicts will be rare. Maybe you can go to your backups and start over.

Can you confirm that the changes in visuals shown occur on the exact same computer? Typically these issues happen if a different font is defined or if the font scaling in windows is different.