I know I asked about that many years ago, but I haven't had a chance to implement this test myself, yet. I wonder if somebody already made something along these lines: VI analyzer has the test "Font Usage" For a test failure, you might get an error similar to the following: "Some part of the display of the indicator labeled "xyz" does not use a specified font. If you are using a font other than Application, System, or Dialog font, this could cause problems when porting this VI to another system that does not have the proper font(s) installed." Well, I would like to test for the exact opposite!!! I would like to find all instances that don't have a really hard specified font (e.g. "Tahoma 13"). In other words, I would like to find all instances where clicking on the text shows a symbolic font name (application, system, dialog, etc.") in the toolbar instead of a named font. Reasoning: As we all know, the LabVIEW front panel does not scale well if fonts are symbolic and the executable is transferred to a machine with a different OS theme or font scaling. Things blow up or overlap. My distributed programs are quite busy and cannot tolerate any font variation issues! Yes, we can include an ini and such, but that does not really solve the root of the problem. Even if we define all fonts in the labview.ini, there are leftovers everywhere where these settings are ignored when dropping new controls. If you don't believe me, try the following: After defining all fonts as "Tahoma 13" in the Ini, Do the following: Drop a modern numeric control and select it. The Font box shows "Tahoma 13". Good! Select the label. The Font box still shows "Tahoma 13". Good! Select the numeric field... wait for it... Now the font box shows "13pt Application Font". What the H@@##$ ???? Select the entire control, click on the font pulldown, select "Font dialog ..." and press OK (tahoma 13 is already filled in, nothing to change). Repeat step #4. Now the numeric is also in the defined font. Basically, symbolic fonts have a way to sneak into the front panel at edit time and I want to make sure I catch them all! And no, I cannot at the end do a "select all" followed by a font pulldown to select e.g. tahoma. Some of my labels and captions have some embedded symbols (e.g. "a" which would revert to "a" if I blindly do so). Long story short, I would suggest one of the following: A: Create a custom test that warns about the presence of symbolic fonts! (need someone to do it. It may be hard to believe, but I never do any scripting, so this would be excessively hard for me to get started). B: Increase the number of options for the existing "font usage" test, e.g. an additional checkbox to "Warn about symbolic fonts" or similar, reversing the behavior. (needs Darren ;)) (Maybe it should also do all that on diagram items containing fonts, not just the front panel. Maybe a scripting tool could be written that corrects all these font issues automatically, being careful not to touch anything defined, e.g. if a "application font" word contains a symbol substring in the middle, that part of the string should not be touched. Probably not easy ...)

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Thanks Darren. As long as I know the limitations, I can check these manually. It's always a very small number of tab structures.

Are you aware of other objects with the same problem?

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Off the top of my head, I don't know any that definitively have this problem. Although I can certainly make a guess that "newer" controls (set/map, e.g.) will likely have components with user-visible fonts that may not be exposed in VI Server.

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