There is not a perfect solution for this in Measurement Studio 7.0. You can get close to it by specifying a #: (where # is a the minimum field width of the string) prefix before the format string. For example, the default format string for the axis labels is the numeric format string "G5". If you wanted to specify a format string with a minimum field width of 7, you could change this format string to "7:G5".
This may do what you want, but note that this is not an ideal solution because a.) you will only get consistent results with a fixed width font, and b.) if affects the total width of the label, which could potentially impact how many labels you see when the axis is using auto spacing.
The next release of Measurement Studio provides a better sol
ution via XAxis.MinimumHeight and YAxis.MinimumWidth properties that give you finer control over the size of the axis without messing with the axis labels. If you are interested in evaluating the beta, please go to
http://www.ni.com/beta to sign up. If you have any questions, you can e-mail the beta coordinator at
mstudio.beta@ni.com.
- Elton
