Hi Daniele,
First things first.
Everyone who has replied to this thread are volunteers that are just trying to help out. We do not have all of the answers to every question, but we do try. That being said I will see what I can do to figure out what your concerns are. To do this I am going to cut-n-paste your reply such that I can process it (i'm ultra-dyslexic and my eyes cross if I don't have some blank lines to help out.)
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From message 9,
“...Anyway, the MinimumSize does not say how small the window can be before you see serious "distortions" …” .
To this statement, although somebody try to suggest that the minimum size was a solution, no one even try to discuss further the subject.
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From message 12,
“… Still, as you could test, it does seem to have some not wanted behavior when window is first maximized and then reduced to a window again
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.In addition I am wondering if exist a way to change sizes of a legenda and its fonts (programmatically) .
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What about string object. It seems that they can not be modified via the program itself, is that true?…”. Again no answer, so far.
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Again something I do not understand is why objects in LV interface do show a sticky behavior ( see attached file, when you resize its window so that the scale-Legend overlaps the x-scrollbar then their position does not remain the same). Is that something that can be avoided.
I think that breaks down into about 5 questions. As volunteers we generally don't have time durring the day to compose custom courseware so I am not supprised that those extra question went un-answered. I'd like to suggest you post each of those question sepearately so we can handle them one at a time. Now I have been nagged by some of the "up-and-comers" on this forum that indicate that I amy be answering too many questions and I'm not giving them a chance to contribute. WIth that in mind, any remaining Q's you have after I reply, should be posted a sepearte questions so that YOu get your answers and THEY get a chance to help you.
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I believe that suggest was made to help you utilize the solution you posted since your approach worked good right up until the pixel size became an issue.
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See my PS below. That may help
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If you shut off the option "autoscale plot legend" you can programatically set its size. This is not trivial because the size of the fonts and the number of plots need to be taken into concideration. I don't think there is a way in LV 8.0 or above to control the font size of the legend. Anyone know how to set the font size of a legend? If this is critical to your app you will have to re-write the legend yourself using an array of clusters so you can control the required properties. Like I said this is not trivial.
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String sizes are limited by the font size. I have not done one of those but Id' first try setting the font smaller then try to down size the control. Somethingf that may help out with this challnge is in the Picture pallette there is a function that lets you insert text in a picture but also tells you how big the text rectangle will be and takes into concideration the font type and size.
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THat will take a little trouble-shooting but first I would make sure your algortihm is working right and all of teh postions and sizes are being set back the way they should be set. Discalimer: I am not ruling out the possiblility that your impresive resizing demo may have revealed a bug (or two). There some odd things I was when re-sizing the plot legend that may have been due to my quick hack or a bug.
Ben
PS: I noticed your FP object were above and to the left of the FP origin. After moving to positive regions your code worked better, but not perfect.
Message Edited by Ben on 03-04-2009 10:53 AM
