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FoxSquirrel

Copy enabled in/from Context Help

Status: New

Currently, you are unable to highlight and copy text from the context help.  It would be nice to allow this functionality for LabVIEW users to be able to copy certain terms from the context help.

Jesse S.
Applications Engineer
National Instruments
4 Comments
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Trusted Enthusiast
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Indirectly related to this suggestion (which I kuddo-ed), this would be of little use if implemented before correcting this irritating limitation of the Help window: name truncation.

 

ScreenHunter_006.jpg|<- this is where my snaphost was cut out.

 

For whatever reason, long control/indicator names are truncated past 27 characters (the total character count for all the truncated names in the snapshot above is 30, including the three dots). It does not matter whether or not you expand the Help window over three contiguous screens...

 

JonWine
Member

Great suggestion.  I would have used it just now to copy all the names of nested cluster elements without needing to write code to do it.

 

MrQuestion
Member

This is a persistent annoyance. For me and my customers. 

Great idea!


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code-lux
Member

A Button or a Key-Shortcut to copy the entire context help text would be a useful first step.