New monitors resolution effects on block diagram

[teslaaaa]

I recently got a new PC from IT with quad display outputs.

I got new monitors with different resolutions from the old monitors I was using.

Has anyone noticed when opening old projects on a new display that the block diagram layout becomes a lot different ?

For example, look at the attachment, look how large the "Bundle by name" box is, and how it has consumed all objects around it.

[RavensFan]

Did you go from a PC that was running WinXP to Windows 7?

The default system fonts for Windows 7 are a size larger than the WinXP fonts.  And generally LabVIEW uses one of the system defined fonts on the block diagram.  (Also, on the front panel.)  So when you make the change from XP to Win7, everything looks larger, and stuff that was lined up neatly before is no longer lined up and can overlap.

Search the forums for Win7 fonts.  There are several threads that discuss this.  You can add some items to the LabVIEW.ini file to define the block diagram, front panel, and the system, application, and dialog fonts to be related to a specific font rather (such as Tahoma 8 in XP, rather than the windows defined font which changed over to Segoe UI 9 on Windows 7.

[teslaaaa]

No they both were win 7 PC's, maybe IT changed the default font size on this PC. i will investigate. Thanks.

[RavensFan · Accepted solution]

There is a font size setting that should be set for "Smaller (default) 100%".  Make sure it's not set for Medium 125% or Larger 150%.

[teslaaaa]

Yes that was it, IT had it set to %125 and default fonts to 11.

Thanks