Close icon editor with enter key

[jacemdom]

Hello,

Use "tab" to tab through the text fields and map enter to the ok button.

This would streamline the dev process when creating lots of vis. It allows to double-click icon --> enter first line --> hit tab --> enter second line --> hit enter --> voilà.

As both my hands are on the keyboard at that point, this would prevent me from reaching for the the mouse all the way at the far end of the keyboard to click ok.

Pushing LabVIEW efficiency further and further, one second at a time!

As it takes on average 1 second to hit the ok button, if that feature is ever added, i will have to create approximately 300 VIs in order to make that posting profitable...but that is just for myself, think of the millions of seconds that will be saved every year on the planet!

[Darin.K]

Found myself on a machine with an unadulterated icon editor and kept flipping icons horizontally.  This is because I modified mine to map the enter key to the ok button.  (Not as simple as mapping, but very easy to do).

Having had this for about 4 years now, I will have to say it is crazy not to have it.  So many times it is open IE, text, return, text, return.  Then it is time to close.  So much faster just to pop over to the enter key.

As for losing work, I refuse to spend more than 20-30 seconds on an icon so even in the worst of the worst cases which happens about once per year, I lose 20 seconds.

I also made Ctrl-W save the changes before closing [X is for cancelling].  A bit unusual, but I like it better than the alternative.  Someday I will make Ctrl-S save the changes (right now Ctrl-S is a phantom click that sometimes I hit as part of a Ctrl-S Ctrl-W reflex). 

[Darin.K]

OK.  Stuck with the shipping Icon Editor thanks to the PPL implementation in LV12.  No more enter key mapping.  sigh.

What really, really bugs me here is why the OK button taunts you by claiming to have focus (the blue glowing border) but does not respond to the enter key.  Really annoying. 

[tst]

> OK.  Stuck with the shipping Icon Editor thanks to the PPL implementation in LV12.  No more enter key mapping.  sigh.

The source for the 2012 IE should be in the IE group.

[AristosQueue (NI)]

By the way... if you're doing text entry, as described in the original idea, you can do "Line one >> Enter >> Line two >> Enter >> Line three >> Enter >> Line 4 >> Enter >> Enter" -- that last Enter will trigger the OK button and commit your changes.

[Darin.K]

I pretty much go Space Invaders on the Return key now, it just does not feel right, and certainly not after having it set up for the Enter Key to be a one press solution.  It does not help that there is always a pregnant pause after the last Return and the actual closing, this moment of indecision still gets me. 

I prefer to get in autopilot when doing this, not counting presses or looking for a box in a button.  It just feels awkward.

[Darren]

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