Additional formatting for tables and multicolumn listboxes

[DR_redviking]

Often when using tables (and multicolumn listboxes), the content of the table column or row header is longer than the desired width of the cell.  It would be nice if there was an option to make the contents of the cell wrap to the next line, similar to how tables work in Excel or Word.

Also, adding vertical justification options such as Top, Center, Bottom to the Active Cell property subset would be nice.

Here's a crude illustration of what I'm talking about.

[tst]

And not just headers. It would be good if this worked for the cells as well.

[CrystalTech]

Kudos!  I will add... NI needs a MAJOR front panel redesign.  26 years is a long time to keep the FP virtually unchanged.  The initial FP was great in 1985.  So was my Sony Walkman Cassette Player.

[Steen S. Schmidt]

Active Cell is used for programmatically changing the font, colors etc., which is fine, but it would also be very practical if you could change the justification, plain/bold setting etc. statically at edit-time, on a column-by-column (or row-by-row) basis.

I might want the first column to be left justified, but the rest of the columns to be centered. And the top row to be bold, and the rest plain (or an alternative font). Today I can set these properties at edit-time for the entire listbox, or for a single cell - not for a row or a column. Since I often do not know the number of elements that will end up populating the listbox, or it may be a number too high to practically set on a cell-by-cell basis at edit-time, I'm left with setting justification, boldness, font etc. programmtically on each cell as I fill out the table or listbox. This adds unnecessary code and spends unnecessary CPU cycles run-time.

[DR_redviking]

I guess this feature will be added as part of the next generation software platform with the XAML support. 

[carlos_camargo]

Now that NXG is dead, maybe this can be done in LabVIEW.  There should be budget for this now that NXG isn't sucking up all the oxygen.

[Christina_R]

Enabling word wrap is captured by Wordwrap in all text controls/indicators (tables, listbox, trees, graph legends, etc) - NI Community. This Idea will be used to track the vertical justification request.

[wiebe@CARYA]

>This Idea will be used to track the vertical justification request.

For all text? (Strings, labels, captions, listboxe cells, tables, etc)

That would be great.

[crossrulz]

Let's clarify something here.  Christina stated that the other idea handles the Word Wrap and it is now labeled as "In Development".  NI is not currently working the idea of Vertical Justification, leaving this idea still open.  So if you want the Vertical Justification, this is the idea that needs comments and kudos.