font problem

[muks]

Can you post your vi?

[Olivier_L]

Did you try to copy the diagram of you VI in a new VI?

I think you had a problem of corruption on that VI, it should not be a bug. Maybe this manipulation could correct things up.

[nitad54448]

Hi

Yes, I can reproduce this problem when I am copying a part of the diagram. In the attached vi you can find  a part of the vi with problems. The funny thing is that when removing a constant and then "Create constant" I get normal characters !

Even strange is the following : when I copy a textin notepad I get the same squares with a suffix describing the format (B for bold and so on) : like this 〷㄰䜠䥐B

In Notepad when I am trying to change the font to, say Courier, I get different squares  :〷㄰䜠䥐B

I need help !

regards

N

[daveTW]

Hello,

to add another strange thing, I copied the label of the surrounded string control to the string constant. Above is a copy of that string constant shown with Hex Display.

1. When the Font Dialog is opened with the Normal Displayed text selected, the sample text is also corrupted!

2. When the Hex-code is typed in into another freshly created string constant ("Hex Display" On) and then switched to Normal Display, the appropriate text is show:"7001 GPIB".

 

This seems to me, that there is nothing wrong with this VI, but LabVIEW did something with the fonts respectively added some attributes (Unicode?) to the text which changes the way the text is shown. And when LabVIEW does it without  some User action then it seems like a bug!

greets, Dave

Message Edited by daveTW on 02-12-2010 05:47 PM

[nitad54448]

Hi

Thanks for trying to help me out ! This font problem I have (on +500 vi so it's impossible to manually change it) is one of the reasons of my comments on the LV releases every year : http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&message.id=474682#M474682

so, maybe I will upgrade after all 🙂

Next : how to change back to ANY kind of fonts ? (even japanese would be better than squares :D)

[Smootastic]

Hi N,

Take a look at this KB and let me know if this helps:

KnowledgeBase 4Z7BPBUB: Why are my Control Labels on my LabVIEW 8.6.x VI Changing Language After Bui... 

[daveTW]

Hi Smootastic,

this is what I get, when clicking on your provided link.

 

greets, Dave

Message Edited by daveTW on 02-15-2010 05:18 PM

[RavensFan]

Something is wrong with your link.

It brings up an NI page with the message "

Error

You are not authorized to view this document"

[nitad54448]

Hi,

can you please give another adress where to find a solution to this AWFUL problem ?

One more interesting behaviour :

A control with squares fonts recover to normal ones after converting to a constant then converting backto a command.. funny ! but not amuzing anymore since I can not work on my project.. (and no answer from NI support .. yet !)

thanks,N

PS Seeing the number of font problems on the forum, I think that NI should create and licence a LabView font, install it on all machines and make this font the default whenever the user wants it !

[Smootastic]

Hi nitad54448 

Unfortunately, this issue has been reported in Corrective Action Request (179683) and is currently under investigation by R&D.  For now, a potential workaround is to convert the controls/indicators to constants and revert them back.  Additionally, this appears to be an issue when using a VI that has been built into an executable.

I'm sorry for the inconvenience.