LabView Front panels screwed up on Win9X systems with "Large Fonts" enabled.

[Lutwak]

I have a LabView app that works fine on many systems with many different monitor resolutions. However, when I distribute it (w/AppBuilder) to any user with "Use Large Fonts" enabled in their Display Properties, the front panel is all a mess.
Note that these users are typically old farts who will not consider resetting the display to "small fonts" like us young 'uns.
It gets a little better (but not much) if I force the font size on each text field rather than using the "panel default." Also, there are some arrangements of controls that get screwed up less than others (tall, narrow columns of buttons with lots of room for the labels).

[eh]

I develop using large fonts. This usually gives me the worst-case spacing for the machines that I support. The built applications on machines using small fonts still look good. Otherwise, another thing you could do is to be sure there is extra room for text around your controls. And, of course, when you have a panel completed, change your monitor to large fonts to see how it will look. (Lots of re-boots, unfortunately)

[Alf Katz]

Tip: if you buy the right Video card (and get decent screen properties
changing software with it) you avoid the "lots of reboots". Probably worth
the $50.
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Regards,
Alf Katz,
alfkatz@removethis.ieee.org

"eh" wrote in message
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> I develop using large fonts. This usually gives me the worst-case
> spacing for the machines that I support. The built applications on
> machines using small fonts still look good. Otherwise, another thing
> you could do is to be sure there is extra room for text around your
> controls. And, of course, when you have a panel completed, change your
> monitor to large fonts to see how it will look. (Lots of re-boots,
> unfortunately)