Is uir screen size limited to ADE viewing area?

[querty999]

When designing a user interface screen, is the size (width and height) of the screen limited to the size of the viewing area on the CVI application development environmen?

[Mert_A.]

Window>>Release Window (or Release Window from the right click menu of the document tab) will put the UIR in its own separate window. You can make that window as large or small as you want.

Mert A.

National Instruments

[dummy_decoy]

... which is still limited to the size of the screen.

double-click on your panel to open the panel properties dialog (or use the "Edit/Panel..." menu), enter a big number in the width and height attributes and click ok: that will make your panel bigger than the size of the IDE and scrollbars will appear at right and bottom of the uir editor.

[wally_666]

I use a bigger target window than my development system has quite often, since targets often are 1920x1200, but my system has three 1280x1024 screens so I can testify that dummy_decoy's solution works, although there might be a bug in the CVI8.5.1 vertical scrolling.  

I had a timer control on the 1920x1200 panel and couldn't find it.  Using the Edit->Find search function in the UIR editor, it retured a "could not scroll window" error.  I had to change the attributes programatically instead of with the UIR.  At one point I had run the UIR editor on a target system to look at and re-arrange the panel, so this might have been part of the trigger for it.  That particular system with CVI on it no longer exists so I can't attempt to recreate.

--wally.

[Kelly_R]

Hi wally_666,

Unfortunately this is not an issue that we have run across before.  Since we do not have the system to reproduce it, we will not be able to narrow down what is going on.  If you do run across this issue in the future, please let us know so we can investigate it further.  In the mean time, we will be on the look out for similar behavior. 

[wally_666]

Kelly,

Here is how to trigger it, which also is the key to overcome it.  I suspenct I made a typo setting the panel height, moved my TIMER to the bottom and later fixed the typo leaving the TIMER unaccessible in the UIR editor.  I'm using CVI 8.5.1

1) create a new panel.

2) add a couple of controls, I've only tested with a TIMER but shouldn't matter.

3) double click the panel and set the height to something larger than your screen, say 1900.

4) scroll and position the TIMER at the bottom of the panel.

5) double click the panel and reset the height to "normal" say 500.

6) use Edit->Find and look for the name you gave the TIMER and you'll get the can't scroll error message.

Obvioulsy the fix would be to make the panel big again, move the control to where it will be on the "normal" panel and then reset the panel size.

Not a big issue but something that confused me while working on "bigger issues".

But if you want an annoyance to fix, make dragging a control on a panel bigger than the UIR editor window automatically scroll the window as necessary to reposition.

--wally.

[Kelly_R]

Hi Wally,

Thank you for the information.  We will take a look into this.