Create smaller banner for libraries

[tst]

When you create a library, its banner (the strip on the top of the icon) is 12 pixels high. This is pretty useless. NI is taking 10% of the icon's height (3 pixels) more than is needed to have a line of text using the default font in the editor. These 3 pixels can be very useful for the rest of the icon, which is what actually shows which specific VI you're dealing with.

I suggest that this be changed to be 9 pixels high, as shown on the right side:

[tst]

> I cannot find a font on the Mac Mac platform that fits in a 10 pix banner...

Perhaps I could interest you in a change of platform? 😉

How about an INI key which will allow us to control this? I assume that adding just an INI key is a lot simpler than adding a fully documented option in the options dialog.

[AristosQueue (NI)]

> How about an INI key which will allow us to control this?

Yeah... I don't like adding things that don't support cross platform development. I currently can (and do) switch seamlessly between working on Windows by day and on Mac by night.

I am curious about one thing-- With the 12 pixel banner,  I can still have 3 lines of text in the body of my icons. What is everyone doing with those extra two pixels in the main body? The example shown in the idea post is just text. If all we're doing is shifting whitespace from one region to another, I'd rather leave enough pixels in the top so that if later I go back and add actual graphics to my banners that there's enough room to do so.

[tst]

If I use three lines of text, an extra three pixels allow me to space them out more, thus making them easier to read. Also, I don't only use text. I do use graphics in the body of my icons and an extra three pixels never hurt. As I said, if the glyph does not fit in the banner, I would prefer that it spill over into the icon to making the banner larger:

That said, I can understand the platform-switching argument. One suggestion would be for the icon editor to have a dedicated rasterized font, but you already know that and I don't really see NI putting resources into that.

[Bob_Schor]

I just asked (in the Forum) "Can I change the default Icon Template for classes to something smaller than 12 pixels", and tst pointed me here.  So here's another vote for this Very Good Idea (in the mean time, I'll manually adjust each Class icon to make it my default size).