Dynamically controling the size (in pixels) of array elements?

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Hey Everyone,
I am writing a large vi where front panel space is becoming a limitation.   One of the elements that I want to display is a 2-D array of boolean indicators (rectangular LEDs).  Is there any way to dynamically resize the elements in the array so that regardless of the number of elements, the entire array is always visible and has a constant footprint.  For example, say the array is 8 x 8 elements, and takes up 160x160 pixels on the front panel so each element is roughly 20x20 pixels.  Then the number of elements shifts to 4x4.  I want the display to stay 160x160 pixels, but the size of each element to double to 40x40 pixels.  Is this possible?
Thanks all,
Matt
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So thank you for two great ideas/examples.  Definitely think I have a couple of very workable approaches.  I have a follow on question about using the intensity graph approach.
First some background.  This indicator is going to show the progress of a sorting operation, 1-4 copies of 1-8 unique items are being sorted into 1-32 containers.  The items arrive at the sorter in random order, are identified, and then placed into the container where they are still needed.  The point of this indicator is to show the user, at a glance, how full each container is andwhich componenets are missing.  I want the elements (columns) to appear different for the unique items, which I know you can't do in an array of booleans.  So I had already dumped the boolean approach for an array of colorboxes, and it was the color boxes that I was trying to dynamically size. There is still a boolean array to keep track of if an item has arrived, but that array drives the array of colorboxes where each type of item is color coded by assigning a gray value to colorbox for false, and a particular color if true.  See attached, which works pretty well (detailed adjusts will make it just right).
I think the intensity graph will look much nicer though, so here is the question:
How do I map the different colors onto the intensity graph so it looks like the colorbox array without the lines?  The attached get vi puts out a different value for each yes/no, which is to say I already know how to take the boolean and convert the 1 state to a unique number, what I don't know how to do is map that number into a particular color on the intensity graph.
Thanks guys.
Super helpful as always!
Matt
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