Improve Item Selection for Enums and Rings with Large Lists

[Darren]

Here's an enum with a lot of elements:

The enum has a built-in right-click menu to 'Select Item', but it's worthless... it does exactly the same thing as clicking on the enum directly:

I think we should replace the 'Select Item' right-click on enums and rings with a Quick Drop-like UI that lets you filter the enum/ring contents and select an item without having to scroll a giant list:

[swatts]

YES!!!!!

[tst]

Related idea - https://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Add-Intellisense-support-to-the-property-node/idi-p/1...

(related in that it suggests a similar mechanism for property nodes, and as suggested in the comments, this could be apply to other places that have long lists. Unfortunately, each of these places probably requires a separate implementation, at least for hooking into it).

Since for an enum this should actually be easy, I'm guessing you already built a shortcut menu plugin that does this?

[Darren]

Yes, a team at NI developed this plugin and is using it internally. I'll ask them if they can post it to the ni.com/lvmenus community.

[pawhan11]

Very nice idea, something like this should be implemented for .net assemblies/properties/methods

[T.Minami]

Could we extend this functionality to the XNET Signal control as well?

This would also be extremely useful for selecting signals out of a CAN database! My customer has dozens upon dozens of signals in his database, and has a heck of a time selecting the correct signals whenever his database gets modified.

[Darren]

We will investigate which other controls besides enum/ring would be feasible to include in the implementation.

[Darren]

Try before you buy, see here.

[swatts]

Status changed to: HAPPY