LabVIEW Gauge Control Digital Display

I have created a Gauge control to emulate a compass rose as suggested by other posts. I have populated the control with 0, 30, 60, etc to 330 and left a blank for the last entry, as setting 360 overwrites the 0 entry. I have selected "Allow Undefined Values" and everything works as required on the Development System, click on the 30, the text entry box shows "30", use the text entry box to select <Other> and a separate digital text box opens up to allow something like 15 to be entered, which then appears in the digital display within chevrons <15> as described in LabVIEW Help, and the extra digital text box then disappears.
When I build the system and install it on the target computer, this latter action does not happen. The extra digital text box remains in view on the panel, so that I have two values displayed. This extra box remains on display even when a value is selected via the mouse. What is going wrong?
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Thanks for the prompt response, here are two pictures "Gauge" from the target machine, and "Gauge Dev" from the development machine.
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