Windows 7 display 125%

[James_AC]

Hi,

Windows 7 has a feature - right click desktop -> personalize -> display.

If you set it to 125% or 150% it seems to mess up the carefully laid out front panel on other PCs (seems to be the case on laptops).  Does anyone know how to override this?

Thanks,

[altenbach]

Use defined fonts instead of symbolic fonts (e.g. "application font").

[James_AC]

To be clear:

Options -> Environments ?

and change "Application Font" (for example) from Font: "Application" to e.g. Font: "Arial" and that fixes it?

[JÞB]

Yes.

"Application Font" and "System Font" ask the OS what its preferences are and applies them  (Even if some goof-ball system-wide setting picks some "Non-Standard" font and / or size.)

[James_AC]

Alright, thanks.

[James_AC]

No, sorry guys, this is not it, or at least assuming I have interpreted as you meant it.

If I do as suggested above, it changes the LabVIEW settings for my computer but when I create the install file and put it somewhere else, it does not carry through - well, at least changing the display to 125% still messes up the front panel.  To be fair, I have not tried it on this machine yet as that involves logging off.

I am sure there is an option somewhere but it is often a case of finding it.

To be clear:  I need to be able to create an installation build that uses fonts that windows cannot scale up when installed on a different computer.  It must not require the user to do anything but double-click on the setup install file.

[MIG · Accepted solution]

You need to put the font size settings into the INI file for your executable.

See here.

[James_AC]

Thanks, have not had a chance to try this out yet.  I will update when I do.

[James_AC]

Thanks MIG,

This seems to solve it.  I am not quite sure I follow exactly what Windows 7 is doing but the 'scaling' function appears to maybe not scale the window the same amount as the font (?!).  I am not going to dig too much into it, suffice to say when I used the fonts as recommended in the thread you pointed to:

FPFont="Tahoma" 13
BDFont="Tahoma" 13
appFont="Tahoma" 13
dialogFont="Tahoma" 13
systemFont="Tahoma" 13

I can scale it to 125% and 150% and everything stays neat and in place.