Setting a digital font for the labview string indicator is not invalid

[TabZhang]

Setting a digital font for the labview string indicator, e.g. Let's go Digital, or DS-Digital, either manually or programmatically implemented, is not invalid.

[zou]

Are you using a non-English windows?

Can you use NI 7-Seg. font instead?

https://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/7-segment-LED/m-p/902243/highlight/true#M406875

[TabZhang]

Yes, but it's the same after I changed to ni-labview-2023-community version.

I also install NI 7-Seg. font  and no any difference，thanks!

[wiebe@CARYA]

I'd set the text value and than select it...

[Yamaeda]

Text.text-property? Shouldn't you set the Value property? Also, as Wiebe said, set the text before selecting it. (property nodes execute from top to bottom)

[zou]

Zhang's code works fine on my computer (LabVIEW 2018SP1 64bit Windows10 Enterprise) if using NI7SEG as font name.

For a string ctrl, Text.Text sets the string value correctly.

But if the string is set to Force Unicode Text, the display is messed up, unless I use HEX 3200 3000 3200 3300 instead of ASCII 2023.

[wiebe@CARYA]

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@zou wrote:

Zhang's code works fine on my computer (LabVIEW 2018SP1 64bit Windows10 Enterprise) if using NI7SEG as font name.

For a string ctrl, Text.Text sets the string value correctly.

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It 'works' for me too, even with DS-Digital as font.

I'd still set the text before selecting it, but it does have some effect if I don't (even if the string is empty)..

As it is it works, but not entirely as expected. For the given text, everything looks Ok. However, if the string is empty, selecting 0-10 and than changing the font actually changes the default font. So, all text entered will have the new font. That might not be the desired behavior.

As only 0-10 is selected, I'd set the text and than change the font, so, for longer string, only 0-10 changes font.