LV2016 Icon editor bug

[ben64]

Was this issue ever solved? I have the same problem with LV2016 on a new vi. In this other thread the issue is also reported and CAR 363138 is open. I attached the icon template which I have the issue with.

Ben64

[Kyle97330]

Are you able/allowed to modify the template as a workaround?

I seem to recall that there needs to be a solid line all the way across (can't recall if any color works or if it has to be black or a dark color) for it to know where to start the text.  That icon has a white border all around it...

[ben64]

I tried different flavors of it (4 or 5) and realized that if there is an horizontal line from side to side the text will start after it. But in the case of the one I posted there is no such thing. I added the pale grey border just to be sure that there wasn't I slightly different color line from side to side, the previous version, without the white border had the same issue. As in the linked post the issue only happens when I use the image as a template.

Ben64

[Bob_Schor]

I've reported here the "Feature" that if your Template has more than 2 horizontal lines, the Icon Editor tries to stick all the text between the bottom two lines.  I wrote this up and showed it to Christina Rogers and Darren Nattinger at NIWeek 2017, so if this is related to the same Template Feature, it might get attention.

Your Template looks like a Template + Glyph.  I think that NI's "Design Idea" was for the top box to be "Template-specific", and the (larger) bottom box to be filled with text and glyphs, perhaps being saved as (static) Templates once the design was "frozen".  We're trying to "push the envelope" (and the envelope, unfortunately, is pushing back).

Bob Schor

[ben64]

My template is a picture I edited and merged with a contour, I didn't used an existing template.

A thing I observed is that it seems that what is considered an horizontal line is when there are more than seven pixels of the same color on a row. Personally i would have consider an horizontal line be a full line from side to side. Or maybe creating a "separator" tool (like an horizontal splitter) in the icon editor.

Ben64