Add Explicit Decoration References to LabVIEW

[PJM_Labview]

Current it is very hard to reliably manipulate decorations using VI server.

LabVIEW need to be able to create explicit decoration references (like it is possible to do on other objects through right click Create>>Reference).

Note: Thanks to TonP for the idea.

[wiebe@CARYA]

>Is there a valid and logical reason why we are unable to create a static reference to a decoration if the refnum can already be found indirectly via vi property nodes?

No time to implement it?

[tst]

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Is there a valid and logical reason why we are unable to create a static reference to a decoration if the refnum can already be found indirectly via vi property nodes?

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No one did the work to have this, as already suggested? Even if something makes sense, it doesn't mean the effort will be put into it.

Like I said earlier, if this is important to you and you don't want to use the control trick, you could use the "set a tag on the decoration trick". This is the RCF plugin I was referring to and if you have LV 2015 and later, you could adapt it to work with the native popup menu system or you could do it as a Quick Drop plugin:

https://forums.ni.com/t5/JKI-Right-Click-Framework-for/Create-reference-for-decoration-RCF-Plugin/m-...

If you want to be fancier, you could make it an XNode and then it could appear just like a standard reference, but that's not actually supported.