Insert Phi

[ASTDan]

QUOTE (TobyD @ Feb 23 2009, 01:13 PM)

Hmm, not sure what is going on then. It works fine for me using the application font (LV 8.6 on windows vista).

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I am using XP.

Great I love these kind of problems... :headbang:

[TobyD]

QUOTE (ASTDan @ Feb 23 2009, 11:35 AM)

I am using XP.

Great I love these kind of problems... :headbang:

I confirmed that this doesn't work in XP with LV8.2 (that's all I had installed). What happens if you open this vi? It should look about like the screenshot I posted above, but with each character in its own comment/constant.

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QUOTE (TobyD @ Feb 23 2009, 11:52 AM)

I confirmed that this doesn't work in XP with LV8.2 (that's all I had installed). What happens if you open this vi? It should look about like the screenshot I posted above, but with each character in its own comment/constant.

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I pulled the attachment because it appears to have done some weird things...when I closed it, it crashed LV with this error:

When I relaunched LabVIEW, the other VI that I had opened looks like it has been converted to Japanese (the block diagram too)!!!

I don't have time to try to reproduce the issue now, but it looks like there might be a bug here somewhere. If you want to play with it AT YOUR OWN RISK here is the VI.

Download File:post-8758-1235419516.vi

[LAVA 1.0 Content]

QUOTE (TobyD @ Feb 23 2009, 03:06 PM)

I confirmed that this doesn't work in XP with LV8.2 (that's all I had installed). What happens if you open this vi? It should look about like the screenshot I posted above, but with each character in its own comment/constant.

It's work for me in XP with LV8.6.1

I also notice that if I change to Hex display, the hex is C603. But... if I entered C603 in Hex display mode I got (text removed) when I come back to Normal display.

[ASTDan]

QUOTE

I confirmed that this doesn't work in XP with LV8.2 (that's all I had installed). What happens if you open this vi? It should look about like the screenshot I posted above, but with each character in its own comment/constant

I opened the VI and I see the Phi Symbol

Why does that work?

Dan

[Francois Normandin]

QUOTE (ASTDan @ Feb 23 2009, 05:06 PM)

I opened the VI and I see the Phi Symbol

Why does that work?

Dan

It did on my system, but if you change the font size and add a roman letter to the same text strip (say phi + f), you'll mess it up (XP, 8.6) and get something similar to pdc's odd characters.

If you don't need to change it programmatically, I would suggest you use a picture of Phi instead of string... I've fought with them in LV7 and gave up.

[ASTDan]

I want to insert phi in a column header. When I try to change the font size I get the attached picture (look at 4th column header)

[Francois Normandin]

QUOTE (ASTDan @ Feb 23 2009, 08:07 PM)

I want to insert phi in a column header. When I try to change the font size I get the attached picture (look at 4th column header)

Hi Dan,

Use the symbol font for just the specific cell.

ActiveCell = {-1, column number}

ActiveCell.CellFont.Name = Symbol

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I think it works exactly the same with a Table.

[ASTDan]

That would work but I need to add some more text after that. It seems a cell can't contain multiple fonts i.e. symbol and arial.

This is what I want it to display

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Dan

[Francois Normandin]

QUOTE (ASTDan @ Feb 23 2009, 09:54 PM)

That would work but I need to add some more text after that. It seems a cell can't contain multiple fonts i.e. symbol and arial.

This is what I want it to display

(text removed)Short

Dan

You're right you can't have both in the column header. My previous rant about giving up in LV7 was for graph titles which required something like "Phase (theta)" and I ended up putting theta as an image. It worked only because the title never needed to be changed but that's hardly a good solution especially for a commercial product where you don't know the user's screen resolution...

Could you create a picture control, display the text you want and superimpose on your column header? That looks more and more like Bob's suggestion to Chris!

[ASTDan]

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Could you create a picture control, display the text you want and superimpose on your column header? That looks more and more like Bob's suggestion to Chris!

I have also Posted on NI discussion forum

http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?boar...=389325#M389325

I still can't insert phi into LabVIEW so I have to download the posted VI, and copy and paste phi into a free label into my LabVIEW. I can then super impose the free label in the column header.

Ugly but it works