My students keep complaining about not being able to see the connections and icons in LabVIEW. I decided to write a post with some solutions to this.
- Using Window’s Built-in magnifier: Windows 7 and up has a built in magnifier installed. Simply hit the start button and type “Magnifier” and run it. By default, mine was in “Docked” mode and I couldn’t get it out of that mode which basically made the program useless. I found a tweak to the registry to fix it at this site but it did not work with my version of windows. I decided to write a short fix for it.
- My regedit was at the same path, but my options were different. Open the start menu and type” regedit” then click “continue” or whatever at the next nag screen to actually open the registry editor.
- Navigate to Computer/HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\MicrosoftScreenMagnifier
- Doubleclick “Classic Doscked” and change the number from ‘1’ to ‘0’.
- Open Magnifier again and you should now have a non-docked window.
- For fun, play with the key called “CLASSIC DOCKED POSITION” to make the dock appear to the top, left, right, bottom, etc of the screen.
- Download a windows app called Zoom It, which has a bit more options then the built-in software.
- For taking good screenshots of your code, you can use the LabVIEW Code Capture tool. This will be useful for student reports or webpages.
That’s it, hope this helps!
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