Font size in executables

I have been struggling somewhat to make my executables look the same way as my source code now, and managed in the end to sort this mess out, using the setttings in the ini-file etc. I have also experienced many times the last years that my source-code forgets my font-size and put them all back to the system standard, to my great frustrations. After programming LabVIEW in 20 years, and never had these problems with font sizes that has emerged the last years (after Win 7 ?), I must say I am a bit frustrated about this behaviour.
I also read on the net that changing the font size under Win 7 shall NOT influence the font size in my programs.
Doesn't this mean that NI is breaking the rules on how font size is suppposed to be handled under Windows 7 ?
Martin

MartinP wrote:
I have been struggling somewhat to make my executables look the same way as my source code now, and managed in the end to sort this mess out, using the setttings in the ini-file etc. I have also experienced many times the last years that my source-code forgets my font-size and put them all back to the system standard, to my great frustrations. After programming LabVIEW in 20 years, and never had these problems with font sizes that has emerged the last years (after Win 7 ?), I must say I am a bit frustrated about this behaviour.
I also read on the net that changing the font size under Win 7 shall NOT influence the font size in my programs.
Doesn't this mean that NI is breaking the rules on how font size is suppposed to be handled under Windows 7 ?
Martin
Just an observation. Reading your post as a requirement, I would think that it was Windows 7 that is at fault because it is causing a change in an application by the way it was worded. But that is an aside.
This might be interesting reading for you: How Do I Set the Default Application Font, Dialog Font, and System Font Size in LabVIEW? It explains that LabVIEW takes the font sizes from the operating system. An extremely wild guess by me would be it has something to do with cross-platform compatibilty so if you made a VI on a Mac you could be assured of having a usable font in Windows, for instance. Anyway, Google gets massive hits on "LabVIEW font problems" for this forum. I tend to use Google search before I post. I find the forum search that posting requires to be too confusing and usually not too helpful.
Bill
(Mid-Level minion.)
My support system ensures that I don't look totally incompetent.
Proud to say that I've progressed beyond knowing just enough to be dangerous. I now know enough to know that I have no clue about anything at all.

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