Why can't LabView 6 handle Windows large fonts?

[pn2500]

I typically run WinXP at 1400x1050 with extra-large fonts set and
screen resolution set to 120dpi.

This makes LabView vi diagrams look like gibberish since all the text
overlaps each other or is otherwise invisible.

Is there any LabView configuration setting I can set to
make it cooperate with the Windows font settings?

If not, does NI assume everyone is running at 800x600 with Windows
normal font sizes?

wuwt?

I am increasingly beginning to wonder about the actual utility of
hi-res screens when so many Windows app's font management is so
rudimentary. Albeit, much of the font problem is inherited from Windows'
own legacy issues and lack of design foresight.

[gbush]

I don't have the same options (1400X1050) on my system, but I ran it to 1600X1200 with large fonts with no problems. Q: Are the latest drivers installed, and selected for your video driver? I will try this on another system tonight (XP Pro) and see what happens

[Greg_McKaskle2]

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>
> Is there any LabView configuration setting I can set to
> make it cooperate with the Windows font settings?
>
> If not, does NI assume everyone is running at 800x600 with Windows
> normal font sizes?

Here is the deal. LV is paying attention to the large font setting and
making every font on the panel and diagram larger. Problem is that the
objects on the panel and diagram are smart enough to resize to fit the
font, but not smart enough to get out of each other's way. The fonts
grow, but all of the other icons and such are bitmap based, a VI icon is
32x32 remember, so when some objects grow and others don't. Also,
especially on the panel, some objects were already overlapping by user
design, and it is basically very hard for a drawing p
ackage to deal with
these sorts of issues.

I think that you will notice that MS basically gave up on paying
attention to font changes in their dialogs. Even with large fonts, most
of the system dialogs, property pages and the like, will use small fonts
because their layout would similarly go wacky.

One solution to this is to go to LV's Tools/Options menu to the fonts
page and set the fonts for Application, System, and Dialog to be
something similar in size to the original fonts. By default LV asks the
system what font to use, but you can override it.

This will not change all fonts in LV, only things that use the App,
System, or Dialog font, but that is pretty much 99 percent of VIs and
all of our dialogs and such.

Greg McKaskle