Lock the front panel in IDE

[RTSLVU]

For all the years programming LabVIEW this is something that has always bothered me. My development system has a monitor much higher resolution than the monitors on our ATE stations and it is very easy to end up with a panel that is too big for the target machines. 

While I can set a MINIMUM panel size it would be nice to set a MAXIMUM panel size or be able to turn off the "Auto grow" on front panels. 

Also related to this being able to turn off scrolling and "Auto Scroll" on front panels in the IDE.

Once I get a front panel set, I want to be able to "lock it" and have it NOT MOVE up, down, left, right or grow for any reason.

[wiebe@CARYA]

Isn't that what the custom panel size is supposed to fix:

It's brand new (>LV20), so I haven't played with it.

[crossrulz]

Wiebe, that setting has been in there for a very long time (I just verified it is there in 8.2.1).  What is fairly new is the checkbox under what you circled: Scroll panes to origin at run time.  That came out in 2019.  That is a very useful feature since you can see a box around the portion of the front panel what will be visible at run time.

[RTSLVU]

Custom panel size is a runtime option, I am talking about the development environment.

When I am developing I DO NOT want the front panel to auto grow, allow me to go outside of a set panel size, or scroll up, down, left, right when I move objects around.

Scroll to origin may help but how do I set the origin?

[crossrulz]

The origin is (0,0).  In edit mode, it is a darkened diamond.

[wiebe@CARYA]

>Scroll panes to origin at run time.  That came out in 2019.  That is a very useful feature since you can see a box around the portion of the front panel what will be visible at run time.

Ah, yes, I was thinking about that box. It's a bit weird that it shows up with that option on, but better then nothing I guess.

That box should help a little?

[wiebe@CARYA]

>While I can set a MINIMUM panel size it would be nice to set a MAXIMUM panel size or be able to turn off the "Auto grow" on front panels. 

Same goes for panes... If panels get a maximum, please add it to panes as well.

How should this work when you maximize the panel?