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Jacc

Documentation Editor

Status: New

If NI is truly serious about documentation being a critical (or just even an imortant part) of LabView software development, then LabView needs a serious documentation editor. Documentation is one of the hardest things to get developers to do and the current LabView just make it incredibly painful.

 

By that, I mean an editor that is not a modal dialog box, and one that can select more than one VI to facilitate copying of docmentation for controls and the VI itself. Subvis typically have many of the same controls of the parent VI and they generally have the same Description and Tip - so make it eeasy to document. Spell checking and the other suggestions in this reguest would  be great, but please, make it EASY to do documentation.

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johnsold
Knight of NI

In addition the Documentation Editor should have the capbility of drawing boxes, diamonds, ovals/circles, arrows, and similar objects which are used in drawing state diagrams.  See the images Ben posted in message 35 in this thread.  Being able to create that kind of documentation directly from LV would be quite useful.

 

Lynn