Export simplified image should retain settings during a session

[altenbach]

In order to make publication quality graphs in another program, I needed to use "export simplified image" many times, each time exporting to the clipboard as emf with the grid hidden.

Every time, this dialog comes up, all settings are back at the default (bmp, grid shown) and I have to click a few places before being able to do what I want. I think it would be more user friendly if this dialog would remember the last used settings, at least during the current session.

 

(I also think that "hide grid" should be checked by default)

IDEA: This dialog should remember the last use settings during a session.

[tomlawton]

Or... not quite as straightforward, there is an approach we use: Write the data to file, use LabVIEW to write a gnuplot script, then use SystemExec to call gnuplot to run the script... Voila- publication-quality graphs 😉

[AristosQueue (NI)]

Never even heard of that option before. Learn something new everyday.

[Darren]

I hate when LabVIEW options dialogs don't remember my settings between uses. Kudos!

[PhillipBrooks]

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@altenbach wrote:

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Every time, this dialog comes up, all settings are back at the default (bmp, grid shown) and I have to click a few places before being able to do what I want. I think it would be more user friendly if this dialog would remember the last used settings, at least during the current session.

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IDEA: This dialog should remember the last use settings during a session.

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The Time Stamp Properties dialog has the same 'feature'. I've suggested making it's settings persistent.

I'm sure there are a couple of other dialogs that could benefit from peristence during a session.

[altenbach]

> Write the data to file, use LabVIEW to write a gnuplot script,..

My figures are typically a combination of graphs from various programs as well as moeluclar models and other elements, so that would not work to well for me. I usually do a "paste special...as emf" into coreldraw, which turns it into editable objects that I can ungroup, change line thickness and color, etc.

[altenbach]

Similar things could be said about the "save for previous" dialog. It always defaults to N-1, even if I downconvert a pile of VIs to 2010 in a row.

[stbe]

yes, kudos - LV should retain settings during the session.

meanwhile, if you are just interested in a very fast way to get an image from a waveform graph during runtime, just right-click and choose "Copy Data" (it's even the first entry in the context menu) -> and you have the Bitmap representation of Export image in the clipboard ready to be pasted somewhere (Email, Document processing, Paint, ...)

it would be nice then, if the "Copy Data" uses the retained settings from the Export simplified image then ... *just dreaming*