November 01, 2006
Hi Eric, we love OL monitor. It is a great tool. Recently we purchased two 50 inch plasma screens and have them displayed the lab. We are having some trouble with the font size and were wondering if in the program you could do something to make it larger. These screens are mounted from the ceiling and it is difficult to see it from the instruments.
Yes not being able to change the font was one of the hair-tearing reasons I created the VIM (Visual Interface Module). With the VIM you can change the size, color, and name of the font. If it would have been possible to do this with the older version believe me I would have, having to reprogram the entire program from scratch was not what I wanted to do. But it is done now and if you would like to give it a try you can download it here: http://www.olmonitor.com/VIMTrial.zip Aside from that on the classic version you can change the option for ‘resolution’ in the options screen of ol monitor. Change it to 800×600. This will cause the display to take up more of the screen. You can also change the resolution of windows from the desktop to 800×600. This will cause the entire screen to be taken up by the program. As for changing the fonts I’ve tried and tried, I even tried to trick windows into using a different font by swapping the font files on the system, to no avail.
