Icon Template - Text Lines won't center vertically - LV21

[Bob_Schor]

Here's an example of my "Parallel Loop" Icon, and how it looks when you post-modify it by adding the extra line at the bottom to make it look like a 2-pixel-wide "While-like" icon.

THmm,  these are a little small.  The first is the actual Icon ("almost a While Loop" with a yellow background), showing a three-line Text entry to identify the VI in words, while the second shows adding the extra line at the bottom edge.  Now, I haven't tested with (say) LabVIEW 2024 whether creating an Icon that looks like the double-thick outline allowing text in the middle by identifying the "largest blank area" for the up-to-4 lines of text.

 This is the .PNG file that I moved into LabVIEW Data\Icon Templates\BS Icons\Loop Host.  "Host" refers to VIs and their icons that are in the Top-Level VIs and their sub-VIs -- I have a similar set of Icons that I use for RT Targets that are filled with light-blue, and called "Loop Target".

Bob Schor

[adam.hopkins · Accepted solution]

Bob - I was not able to replicate the issue you described with the double lines. I saved off a new version of your icon with the extra line at the bottom and used that as a template. The text centered fine in LV2018 and LV2024

[Bob_Schor]

Hello, Adam Hopkins!

I've been living with this "annoying feature" (which I'm pretty sure is still present in LabVIEW 2019, the oldest version I'm still using) that I never checked to see if it had been rectified!

So you get the Solution for telling me "See if NI or your LabVIEW colleagues fixed this issue, dummy!".

Thanks!

Bob Schor

[Bob_Schor]

Just successfully "repaired" my Loop Template(s) to have double-thick lines on the borders, and they work back as far as LabVIEW 2019 (which is the oldest version of LabVIEW I currently have installed).  I'm guessing that this was fixed at some point after LabVIEW 2017 (which used to be my oldest version), and I carelessly didn't notice that it had been fixed, and I could "repair" my templates by adding back the missing second horizontal line at the bottom.  You can teach an Old Dog New Tricks!

Bob ("Loopy") Schor

[daveTW]

Hello Bob,

thank you for reminding me to the channel wires again.