What resolution to use

[epik78]

I wrote an application for outdoors gas measurements and I can't decide what resolution to use. I originally wrote it in 1400x1050 and I assumed that by checking the "Maintain proportions of window for different monitor resolutions" box it would go to full screen with no problems in case you are using a lower resolution monitor. But as I read in the forums and found out myself there are certain problems with that and when I try it out my front panel is a mess with controls overlapping each other (I guess there is no such thing as half a pixel).

Is it a valid solution to go for the lowest resolution possible? In my case that would be 1024x768 since I have a good number of controls and 800x600 is too small. Is the 1240x1024 more popular? Also should I check the "Maintain proportions of window for different monitor resolutions" box in order to resize for better resolutions or should I play it safe and just have the front panel appear at the top left corner?

Thank you.

[Coq_Rouge]

The front panel scaling functions does not always work 100%. I had the some problem with an application once. The customer was not very happy with the scaling functions. So I wrote 4 separate applications for the screen resolutions the customer planed to use, and included all on an install cd. For me this was the simplest and quickest solution. Only minor changes on the front panel was needed in each case, and the customer was also very happy. Remember also to take the Labview font scaling problem into consideration. You can read more about it here

http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&thread.id=384019&view=by_date_ascending&page=1 
 

Message Edited by t06afre on 04-01-2009 04:23 PM

[pallen]

The LabVIEW Style book by Peter Bloom suggests a resolution of 1280x1024.  Most modern monitors can handle this resolution, although I still occassionally develop for LCDs that only support 1024x768.

 

As mentioned by another commenter, resizing LabVIEW front panels requires some special considerations.  Michael Aivaliotis and JKI did a demo at NI Week last year showing how to design a front panel that actually resizes well.  I had a quick look for the demo and couldn't find it.  But perhaps a more indepth search will come up with something.

[Cory_K]

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t06afre wrote:

.... So I wrote 4 separate applications for the screen resolutions the customer planed to use, and included all on an install cd...

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That would be called a brute force solution

[JeffL]

I've seen people use the window resize event to drive the resizing of their controls, etc., before. It worked pretty well.