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Migration Guide for Allegro Platform Products Core Allegro Platform Back-End Products October 2019 66 Product Version 17.4-2019 © 1999-2019 All Rights Reserved. 17.4's more modern look and feel, and its use of variable-width fonts, this results in much more space being reserved for the label than is actually required for proper display. Additionally, fields now have a transparent background. Which means that if something overlaps slightly, but the overlapping area of the top field is an area that is empty, the label behind it will remain visible in 17.4, whereas in 17.2 it would have been hidden and looked like a blank area. For text labels which are a single line, like a label beside a string fill-in field, no FSIZE statement is required. The text of the label is enough for layout tool to determine how much space it needs to reserve for the text. In these cases, removing the line from the form file is the simplest solution to restoring your form to the look that you want. It may, in fact, take up less room on screen. In cases where there are multiple lines of text, the FSIZE statement tells where to wrap text to the next line, and how many lines to reserve for all the text to display. In these cases, the statement is required (we need to know to wrap your text and not display it as a single line!) and may need to be adjusted in the form file to account for the different size and spacing of the fonts used in 17.4 versus earlier software releases.