Obscured Labels - Graphs and tab controls

[johnsold]

In LV 2012 new options (Preferences or Options on the Mac) allow placing labels on new controls and indicators in various positions. I have noticed that for graphs and tab controls some of the options result in obscured labels.  See the image below.

The preferences are set as shown:

When a graph is dropped, the label is superimposed on the plot legend display.

For a tab control everything is OK until enough tabs are added to create a second row. Those tabs are behind the label.  I can understand some reluctance to move a label automatically after it has been created (in the tab case), but I think it would be better moved up than obscured.  Perhaps if the programmmer had repositioned the label before the tabs were added, then it should not move automatically.

Is this a bug?

Lynn

[Matt_L]

Hi Lynn,

I've played around with these settings and I get the same results.  It seems with the tab control that the new row of labels is pushed to the top by default, and the label will be obscured unless it has been placed to the bottom or side of the control.  After looking into things further it seems that this is the expected behavior rather than a bug.  You're welcome to post your idea to the Idea Exchange as a feature request, it seems like that might be a better way to handle the label positioning in the future.

[johnsold]

Matt,

I do not understand why this is expected behavior but will post something to the Idea Exchage.

Lynn

[Jeff-P]

Lynn,

I took a look at this and I do consider the behavior with the waveform graph to be unexpected behavior and filed it as CAR 389887. As you discussed, the behavior with the tab control is more of a grey area since when the control is intially dropped the label is not obscured. However I made a note of it in the CAR as well, and linked this forum to the CAR.

Regards,

Jeff Peacock

Product Support Engineer | LabVIEW R&D | National Instruments

[johnsold]

Jeff-P,

Thank you Jeff.  I will post a link to this thread in the Bug Report thread.

I agree that that the tab control issue is more ambiguous.  It seems likely that any fix for the waverform graph will have an impact on the tab issue, so it is good that they are linked.

I will hold off on posting an Idea as Matt Lee suggsted until the CAR is resolved.

Lynn