Hide a control or indicator from showing up in Context Help

[AristosQueue (NI)]

LabVIEW has built-in Context Help. If you mouse over a control (button, textbox, whatever), the CH updates to show info about that control. Users can type in Description information to provide detailed help about the control.

The problem is that the CH updates for every element on the panel. Some elements may not be "functional", such as a picture control that is just a status display and is self-explanatory. It's junky to have it show up in the CH with the "no help available" message, and it is silly to put CH info into something like that.

I suggest a simple "do not update CH for this control". The CH would not update when the mouse is over such a control, the same way it doesn't update when the mouse is over an empty part of the panel.

[altenbach]

Excellent. This would also an important setting for tab controls, maybe it should be enabled by default for those.

Currently, if a control or indicator is on a tab page and does not have a context help asssigned, we get the context help of the tab control instead, which if often quite out of context. (Maybe this should even be considered a bug in the current implementation?)

[StephenB]

While I do agree this would be an improvement, I can't help but think resources would be better used on other items. This seems more to me like a "nice to have". In a world of finite resources... I'd rather see something else.

For example, context help that pulled the help info out of the assembly for .net constructors, methods and properties.

[Mr.Mike]

@AQ: Are you talking about customizability on an instance-by-instance basis (disable for any control the user wants to disable) or control-by-control basis(disable for all picture controls)?

@Stephen B: I think that ideas here should be judged independently of one another and in the long run the number of kudos will reflect what people think resources would best be used on.

[AristosQueue (NI)]

@Mr. Mike: Instance-by-instance.