New idea, navigation quick jump

[Neil.Pate]

Hi All,

I am posting this here first instead of the Idea Exchange as I am confident someone has thought of this already and added it as an idea. I have tried searching for obvious terms but get no hits.

Idea: add some method of navigating back to to the previous "place" in the block diagram, ala Visual Studio.

Typical use case: editing some code, need to copy something similar from another portion of the BD, goto that bit (normally another case in a case structure) copy the code to the clipboard (or ctrl drag it outside the structure to be moved somewhere else) and then quickly jump back to the case I was in previously.

I haven't really though of all the practicalities of this idea yet...

Any body posted this idea yet?

[PhillipBrooks]

Sort of like a bookmark?

See this idea...

[Neil.Pate]

Sort-of, that is one I did manage to dig up during my search.

My idea is far more tempory, no need to actually create user defined bookmarks etc, LV would do this behind the scenes and then you could quickly move backwards/forwards through the last few. I dont think this info would need to persist if you closed the VI or project.

[jcarmody]

I've been toying with the idea of adding browser-style navigation buttons to my CaseSelect plugin for the JKI-RCF.  This will let you step through the State Machine states you've visited.  Would this help in your case?

[Neil.Pate]

Yes thanks Jim that would be great.

A lot of the time I am working within the same VI and just want to go back to the previous state I was in.

[Neil.Pate]

Jim,

does your plugin work with enums? I can only seem to get it to work with string case-structures.

[jcarmody]

It works with enums for me.  What's not happening for you?

[Neil.Pate]

Sorry, I must have been on another planet yesterday.

It works fine with enums (I think in a moment of madness I was testing it on the Event Structure) D'oh!

[jcarmody]

What version of LabVIEW do you use?  I've got the feature started and would like to share it with you and get your feedback.