Font Problems with transition to LV 2023

[daveTW]

Hello friends,

recently I switched from LV 2019 to LV 2023 Q1 - I decided after these years it's OK to bother my customers with installing a new Runtime Engine. I'm working on Windows 10.

After opening my block diagrams, I noticed that the font in property nodes, properties of event structures, selector text in case structures are not my BD default and FP default fonts. These are set to Arial 15, but shown is a smaller font. I didn't have this effect with LV 2019.

This is illustrated in the image below, you can see the wire bends from the event case properties, which results from another font size, when this VI was created.

I opened the Options- Dialog, category Environment, in the Fonts section for "Application Font", "Dialog Font" and "System Font" all settings were correct, i.e. Arial 15. Nevertheless I checked the "Use default font" and changed it then again to Arial 15, also checked the BD Default & FP default checkmarks. This didn't help.

Any ideas?

[crossrulz · Accepted solution]

This is a new feature in LabVIEW 2023 Q1 in an effort to have nodes have the same size.  For this, NI forced the font and size for all property nodes, Bundle By Name, and Unbundle By Name.

I will note that the only people having the issue you are describing are those who used customized symbolic fonts.

[daveTW]

Hi crossrulz,

this should be represented by the System Font, shouldn't it?

[crossrulz]

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@daveTW wrote:

Hi crossrulz,

this should be represented by the System Font, shouldn't it?

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That could cause the node sizes to change based on the font, which I remember happening when moving from Windows XP to Windows 7.  Again, the goal is to have everything have the same size to avoid (1 or 2 pixel) wire bends.  I think the goal is a 4 pixel grid (no promises here since it has been a long time since I've seen NI discuss this).  See the following ideas for examples of what needs handled:

Align terminals between "To More Specific Class" and Property Node 

Split Number/Join Numbers primitive connector placement 

Change error terminals of Variant to Data function to match every other VI and Function in LabVIEW 

[daveTW]

OK, this convinced me. I missed these discussions, but I fully agree that these little bends are disturbing the eye while reading the block diagram.

Thanks.