Add Runtime Menu Reference as a VI server property

[DanyAllard]

There is a missing property that it will be very useful to have to access the menu reference.

Old way:

New way:

This way it's more clean and we can open a reference to the menu from another VI

Dany

[soupy]

can an AE respond as to why this doesn't exist? I'm guessing that there is a good reason. this would simplify a bunch of my code.

[David_Staab]

I think you're going to want LabVIEW R&D to respond, not an AE. And I expect the honest, perennial answer would be "because the current way works, and there's way too much other work to do right now."

[TurboPhil]

One use case I found myself wishing I had this feature for: I have some common VIs for which I would like to be able to open the front panel; these are called in multiple applications. It would be super cool if I could let those subvis obtain a reference to the top level VI (using Call Chain) and insert a menu item.

[AristosQueue (NI)]

You forgot the other common answer, David, which is more likely here: No one ever asked for it before and we never thought to add it.

[andre.buurman@carya]

How about adding it to LV 2018, it would prevent us from having to distribute both the main VIref and the MainVI menu ref to the UI handler.