<B>Larger Radio Button</B>

[Andreas]

Hi,
I created a larger radio button with the control editor (picture attached), but if I try to use this saved control, it always appears with the original dimensions.
Did I forget to adjust a setting or what am I doing wrong?

Regards.

Andreas

[Jim_Kring]

Try opening it in the control editor, changing to edit mode, and enlarging it. It worked for me. See the attached VI.

[Andreas]

Hi Jim,

I opened the VI you posted, but it shows the default size, please look at the attached picture.
Enlarging was not the problem, but when I save it and load the control afterwards, it looks as if no dimensions have been changed. Perhaps it happens only with LV7?

Regards,
Andreas

[eh]

Try using the classic version of that control. I could get it to resize and remeber its size properly. The 3D version would not stop reverting back to the orignal size on my system either.

[Andreas]

Thanks, eh,

I already found that alternative, but this old-fashioned thing looks just worse than the new one.
So there isn't a clue to have the bigger new ones?

Best Regards,
Andreas

[eh]

The only way I could get it to resize is: Under the property window, appearance, selecting multiple strings. Enter your on text string. Then I used a propery node to resize it when it was run. Of course, this resizing will be visible when you run the VI. If I did not select multiple strings, it would not resize even with the property node.

[Andreas]

Thank you for your effort, eh.
Seemingly, there's no practical solution for my wishes, I hope NI engineers are listening...

Andreas

[Jim_Kring]

Andreas,

You're right. When I open the VI in 6.1 it looks OK (BIG), but when I open it in 7.0 is reverts back to the default size (small).

-Jim

[Greg_McKaskle2]

> You're right. When I open the VI in 6.1 it looks OK (BIG), but when I
> open it in 7.0 is reverts back to the default size (small).
>

I didn't see the original post, but dialog controls on some platforms
are required to be a given size. This size limitation is passed on to
LV panels because LV is using system drawing routines for the dialog
objects. In some releases, LV may have allowed growing of the control
leading to bitmap stretching or objects that didn't find their bounds.
In LV7, it tries to keep you from resizing the objects. It also updates
the control size to match the platform on load.

Greg McKaskle