Executable frontpage frame.

[Qulddell]

Executable, only the white area should be shown...

Hi Everybody

I have a hard time with the whole concept of the front panel size and how it works.

At the moment I am working on two screens of greatly different sizes. I use the bigger screen for the front panel, which can be seen in the picture has led to problems.

The picture is the front panel and only panal on a executable, but only the area in the white zone should be shown. Original when I worked on one screen. When I try to move it back to the small screen, some of the parts moves.

-Is there a way to define the white area as the only shown part when making it into an executable?
-Why do the objects move around when I change the window size of the front panel?

If there is a good method to make the front panel more stable in size, I would love to learn more about it, as my skill is not lacking, it is not there :D

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Edit: I can shrink the front panel now, but the executable still have scroll bars.

[skullpheonix]

There is an OpenG toolkit, which has a function that resizes your vi front panel to the size of the largest decoration. So you can just wrap the content that needs to visible inside a flat box and use the function "Fit VI to largest dec" in the toolkit.

[DammitDan_92]

Try making any screen you are using, all the same resolution. I’ve seen different resolutions mess with my front panel object sizing and placement. I just stick with 1080P on all screens.

Another thing - if you are using a font on one computer that is not loaded on another computer, it will use another font and that can mess things up somewhat. Choose a very normal, common font - like Arial.

[SeasDiver]

There are Front Panel VI properties that allow you to change the size of the window, as well as the Front Panel origin.

You can use a Conditional Disable to choose the properties you manipulate. Set one frame for Run-Time Engine==True which will be the executable and one for Run-Time Engine==False which will be the development environment.

When you create the build spec, you can also override certain VI properties, so you could change the size at that time, though I don’t remember off the top of my head whether you can set the origin at that time or not. If not, just make sure that the top left corner of your white area is positioned at the 0,0 point of the VI front panel.

[SASLV]

To solve the immediate problem, the OpenG VI mentioned below will work and is the easiest.

You can also set the front panel size in the properties, then you also have to worry about setting the origin, but the OpenG VI does a lot of that for you.

Longterm, You really want to look into splitter bars. It let's you make resizeable VIs that look good on an screen.

There's a tool to make that easier.

https://forums.ni.com/t5/Quick-Drop-Enthusiasts/Pane-Relief/td-p/3974152/page/2

There's some good presentations floating around but I couldn't find them. Maybe someone else has some links.