LabVIEW Idea Exchange
Does anyone else find having to create code to customise a listbox or table symbol a little frustrating? If I want to insert a number of custom symbols into a listbox I have to create code to load images and programmatically alter the embedded symbols, run the VI, then delete the code. But what if the listbox is already a part of a large VI? It's not always so easy to insert the necessary code for this one-time execution.
I would like to see a tool to enable customisation of the listbox and table symbols. A tool that can be launched easily, such as from the right-click menu, with some of the useful features of the new Icon Editor such as access to a list of Glyphs, and perhaps the ability to build a database of project-related symbols that can be pasted as a block into controls, perhaps by dragging and dropping from the LabVIEW project tree.
There currently exists a Right-Click-Framework tool that gives us something close to this, but it would be nice to have something built into the LabVIEW Developement Environment.
Existing Method: example code snippet for programmatically customising symbols (painful)
Right-Click-Framework: the Symbols Wizard, a plugin for the Right-Click-Framework, for managing custom symbols
