The "Use Default Limits" text in the properties dialog appears garbled in 8.6.

[tst]

When selecting the Data Entry page in the properties dialog for a numeric control in LV 8.6, the dialog appears like this:

A quick test seems to show that this is the same text placed at the same position, once as a 12 pt dialog font and once as a 13 pt dialog font. My INI file has the dialog font as 13 pt Tahoma, which I believe is one point larger than the default, and this is probably what's causing this.

[Adam_H]

Hi  tst,

I have opened it up on my end and see it as normal.  What INI file are you referring to?  I looked in the general LabVIEW.ini file and I did not see it in there. 

[tst]

I'm not near a computer with LV at the moment, but I was refering to my LabVIEW.ini file, which has a line which sets the dialog font to be 13 pt Tahoma (probably DialogFont="Tahoma 13" or something similar, but I can't be 100% sure). If you add that line and restart LabVIEW, you will probably see this. You can probably set it to a crazy size and the effect will be more pronounced, but I didn't try playing with this at all.

[Adam_H]

Hi tst,

It looks like it is actually the application font not the dialog that causes the problem.  The line is added to the INI file only if you change the default text and this is why I did not see it at first.  This was reported to R&D (#130882) for further investigation.  To get around the problem you will have to leave the application font to default.

[tst]

Playing with the dialog font definitely changes this. I changed it to 16 pt and could see the difference clearly. My guess is that the text there is both application font and dialog font (e.g. once as a free label and once as the check box boolean text) and that changing either of them demonstrates this. I'm sure whoever opens the VI will see this immediately.

[Adam_H]

Hi tst,

You are right both the application and documentation font seem to cause the problem.  Either way the issue has been reported to R&D and they will be looking at it.

Message Edited by Adam_H on 10-27-2008 04:43 PM

[tst]

You should note this also happens in other places. I saw it, for instance, in the Show Boolean Text section of the boolean property page, so you should add a note to the CAR to have whoever handles this go over the other dialogs as well.

[Adam_H]

Hi tst,

I have included into the CAR that the problem seems to be more wide spread and is not limited to the numeric control.

[Adam_H]

Looking back at this I noticed I never gave everyone a CAR ID.  This was reported to R&D (130882) for further investigation.