Why do the appearance of my customized control change while changing the size of window?

[flysinger]

Hi,

     I want to show the direction of power flow, so I customize an arrow-like slider, the width of the line is set the width as 3, and the height as 80. It can work. However, when I change the size of the window, the line of the slider is changed , and it looks quite ugly. How can I solve this problem.?

Jessie

[flysinger]

Hi,

          It seems ok when I cancel the option " scale all object on front panel as the window resizes" in VI properties. However, how can I make the whole front panel fits in the screen size without having to move scrollbar to see all of them? It seems that the size of front panel  doesn't change at all.  So does this mean that I have to resize of all my controls and pictures to fit them in the window size manually? Only by this way can I get the snapshot of the total front panel?

Jessie

[mikeporter]

First, as you found out, the "scale all object on front panel as the window resizes" doesn't really work very well.

Second, what you're saying is that all your controls won't fit on the screen? What resolution is the screen? Typically manually sizing and placing objects on your front panel is the best way to get everything placed correctly. In addition, I have often found that an inability to fit everything on the screen is an indication that the interface is too busy.

Mike...

[flysinger]

so do you mean that we cannot expect the controls adjust their sizes automatically? all that I can do is only to resize every component manually to fit them in the screen? It seems the " scale all object on front panel as the window resizes" have no effect on normal controls except the customized one.