Keep front panel icons same size on different monitors

I was wondreing if there was anyway where you can make your front panel automatically adjust itself to fit the full size screen of other computers with different resolutions than the one that the front panel was developed on.
thank you
M

Try this thread.
http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&thread.id=291198&view=by_date_ascending&page=1
I have concluded nothing works and if any of my programs will be used on different monitors I will develope the program in the lowest resolution needed.

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Hello, i have designed a vi that contains 5 led's placed at the 4 corners and center of the front panel which occupies the entire screen. However, this vi is to be used on different systems having different screen sizes. But on every screen, i'll need the front panel size = screen size and the led's to be placed to the centers and corner of this new screen size automatically without any manual operations and positioning bieng done every time. Will the resize option perform this task completely or do i have to go for some other techniques?
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As far as I know, what you want is not easy to do but it is doable but you have to programmatically do it (no Labview setting). Here is an example for only 2 LEDs but I suppose that you will be able to make it work for your other LEDs.
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These instructions worked for me:
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Message Edited by Klein on 08-06-2008 11:50 AM

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