Quick Drop

[Darin.K]

In Visual Studio I do not want my hands to leave the keyboard. In LV I do not want to leave the mouse. The transition breaks the flow in either case. LVspeakis intriguing, but I have visions of HAL.

If you find yourself digging through several layers of subpaletes, it is time to learn to customize. You'll be surprised at how a few functions really go a long way. Throw in a couple of custom VIs set to place contents and the sailing is quite smooth.

[tbob]

I would say that 90% of the functions I use are just one or two subpalletes deep.  Probably 50% of them are in the first palette I click on (loops, events, numeric/string/boolean functions).  I just can't see creating a shortcut for a For Loop when it is two clicks away.  And having to memorize all my shortcut keys.... nope!

[Broken_Arrow]

Put the deeply nested functions that you use in your Favorites.

What's in your Favorites? My top three:

In-Place Element Structure, Typecast, Variant to Data. -- oh, and Color Box Constant.

[Neil.Pate]

I can never find Typecast.... I must do a QD for this function at least a couple of times a week (ok so not that much time saved!).

A problem with customising QD is that when you go to take the CLD/CLA exams you are right back to square one with none of your fancy shortcuts, and then even slower on the exam 😞

[Darren]

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@nrp wrote:

A problem with customising QD is that when you go to take the CLD/CLA exams you are right back to square one with none of your fancy shortcuts, and then even slower on the exam 😞

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When I took the CLD/CLA, I spent about one minute at the very beginning adding my most common Quick Drop shortcuts.  And another minute customizing Tools > Options settings.  And I guarantee those two minutes were more than made up for during the exams... 🙂

[Broken_Arrow]

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Darren wrote:

When I took the CLD/CLA, I spent about one minute at the very beginning adding my most common Quick Drop shortcuts.  And another minute customizing Tools > Options settings.  And I guarantee those two minutes were more than made up for during the exams... 🙂

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and it didn't hurt that you kick arse at LabVIEW !

[Darren]

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@for(imstuck) wrote:

I know I would definitely get a lot of use out of it, as I'm sure others would. It makes my coding exponentially faster.

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I finally had some time to post my Quick Drop prototype for use with LabVIEW 8.5.  You can get it here.