Labels in Designer readable but really small in Vision

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Here's what my designer has:

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image926×581 9.46 KB

And here's what's in vision:
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image796×565 9.38 KB

What's going on with this mismatch in sizes?

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Right click on your labels in the designer and select "Layout". This will show you the Scaling / Aspect ratio settings. Its important to keep these settings consistent across your project.

I typically disable the "Scale Font" setting which will keep the font size the same as what you configured in the appearance settings, regardless of the screen resolution

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Great --
is that stored in project properties?

I'd want it to be inheritable/global for every label I make

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Layout is an independent attribute of every component and nested container. It is not inheritable, but the project props allow you to set a default.

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Ah, thanks, makes sense.

Perhaps the answer to this question is 'here be dragons, don't worry about it' but I'm looking at the XML for the exported project and I'm not seeing any sort of 'scale font' boolean. Is that data represented in some arcane way in the layout constraints property and recalculated internally?

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IIRC, yes.

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I do all of my vision designing using Anchored layout, allowing things that I want to expand to expand the way I want them to. This allows me better control over the overall layout of the windows.

I have always found Relative layout to be hard to manage and unpredictable at best.

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Any chance of this changing in 8.3?

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Phil's not an Inductive employee and will have no internal knowledge, but I'll answer on his behalf:

No.

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If you're interested in access to these things via scripting, as you continue to not be dissuaded from your goal of programmatic modification of Vision windows :smile:, take a look at
FPMILayout and FPMI_LC.

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Hmmm. I may resemble that remark.... :smiling_face_with_halo:

I did that once. / shudder /

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Anchored doesn't work for P&ID pages though, unless my 6+ years away from Vision have failed me? Unless you don't want your P&ID layouts to scale

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I don’t, but I also have the pleasure of being the person who specs the systems, and so they all use the same resolution and system scaling.

The only thing I’ve yet to be able to convince people of is not using Windows OS.

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