History for insert

[JB]

In a big project I needed to insert a function at several (read "more than hundred") places.

How much would I have appreciated a history which gave me a direct access to this function without the need to go to the specific functions palette again and again !

This would have saved me a lot of time... and made this annoying task a little bit less annoying !

LabVIEW should memorize at least the last inserted function/VI but a history of four or ten would be much better.

The history could be implemented either with an extra menu (see below image) or by listing the X last inserted functions/VIs right under the All Palettes menu entry.

The incompatible functions/VIs for the wire type should be grayed out or, even better, the history should be contextual and list only the compatible functions/VIs.

 

[Darren]

In LabVIEW 2010 and later, you can insert objects on multiple wires in a single operation with Quick Drop.  See here for more information.

[remywizard]

I like this idea and think it would even be better to expand this history list to other nodes like the replace.

[JB]

Darren,

Thank you for your answer.

In my application I had to go through tens of VIs and I first needed to make some place in the diagram before inserting the function. Furthermore, in each VI, the function had to be inserted in different cases of a state machine.  Therefore, it was impossible to select several wires at a time and the Ctrl+I shortcut of QD was of no help in this case.

Best regards

[warren_scott]

I would also vote for adding  "open VI's >>" as another entry, and allow you to select from any VI's that are explicitly open (not just in memory), or maybe "other VI's in this lvlib >>"