Allow sub-palettes to automatically populate with mnus placed in LabVIEW menus folder

[David_L]

Currently in LabVIEW you can have a top-level palette (Programming, Measurement I/O, etc) automatically populate based on .mnu files existing in the folder structure at <LabVIEW>\menus\Categories\.  However you cannot do this with the sub-palettes such as Arrays, File I/O etc.

I propose to allow auto-populating palettes for all LabVIEW palettes so developers can place their own palette within the appropriate LabVIEW palette for their functions.  One example is OpenG and MGI each have a palette of Array functions.  They are currently placed in a top-level OpenG\Array or MGI\Array location.  If we could sync these folders, we could place each of the array palettes under the Programming\Array palettes:

Simply by dropping their corresponding mnu files here:

Thoughts?  Discussion on LAVA that spawned this idea is here.

[crelf]

I'd vote for this more than once if I could! This is a huge barrier to reuse in my opinion.

[asbo]

As a developer who depends primarily on Quick Drop, I only wander into the palettes when I'm not entirely sure what I'm looking for. On more than one occasion, I've heard from another developer (or later found myself) that function xyz is in the OpenG palette, if only I'd remember to look there. Kudos!

[drval]

I'm all for this.

[CRoebuck]

As a developer trying to encourage reuse in his team, having this feature would lead to a more intuitive palette set and stop proliferation of top level palette categories. +1 for me ! !