Collapse Lengthy String Constants to an Icon (like LV 2010 Clusters)

[Broken_Arrow]

Large string constants, like to one shown below, can really get in the way. I would like to double-click the border and have it collapse, like the LV 2010 Cluster now does. Putting large string constants in a VI, or rolling them up, are some work-arounds, but this would be easier...

                                 Double-Click the "text" icon to reverse.

[Minty]

Broken Arrow > That's what I do on occasion, but when I want to read or edit the large string, I have to drag it over to some other area where there's enough room to expand it, read or edit it, then roll it back up *just so*, and by then the scroll bar is useless because I'm only seeing part of one line. Wouldn't a double-click be easier?? Especially if it hovers over existing frames when expanded.

You have reminded me of an important point: that you should be able to title the icon (or glyph as you call it). In my example above, I'd call the icon "Guardband Reminder".

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Granted.

But I guess my coding style (generally) doesn't include huge static strings. Dialogues, error messages etc are all file based (so they can easily be translated). Therefore static strings usually boil down to either a text check (on/off for a driver returned string etc.) or a  keyword lookup for the real text.

[tom.huo]

I think it will be better that the test dialog pop up after I double click the 'Text'. 

[InfiniteNothing]

I use the build text express VI for this purpose. No inputs required 

[WG-]

Now that this idea is in development (which in fact, in the basics, is the same as mine) http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Need-edit-window-for-large-string-constants/idi-p/1220... will it get a edit window? So that when you double click on the string icon it does not open in the block diagram (messing it up) but rather opens in a window? Otherwise this feature is in my homible opinion totally useless.

[G-Money]

Available in LabVIEW 2012

[FabiolaDelaCueva]

I am trying this on LabVIEW 2012 and I don't get the string to look as an icon. How was this implemented?

Thanks,

Fab

[Darin.K]

The Edit Window has been through beta and implemented in 2012, that is different than this idea.  Unless they say that with the edit window you are free to shrink the string constant as small as you would like.  Still no icon view. 

Agreed, this one should either be declined or new, but not completed.  And while they are at it, WouterG's idea should be marked as completed.

[PalleM]

Still not implemented in LV13

Where is my "string-constant-collapse-to-icon" dbl click feature?