Tab control label "font" property node
Hi!
I am trying to manage font dimensions of different controls.
I am using property nodes, and it is simple to find the font part in the list of properties you can choose, both the label font part and the different contents fonts (boolean text, numeric text, string, etc...).
However, when I search for the property used to manage the font of the pages labels in a tab control, I am not able to find it.
Can anybody tell me where to find it? Or is this property just not available for the property nodes?
Thank you!
Mike
MikeNuke, PhD student
Politecnico di Milano
Department of Energy, Nuclear Engineering Division
It seems not:
http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/programmatically-change-tab-page-label-font-size/td-p/1071913
Jean-Marc
LV2009 and LV2013
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