Improve "Select the VI to Open" Dialog for Packed Project Libraries (and LLBs too)

[shew82]

Why is it that when you go to Select a VI from a packed library, all of the careful work that the developer put in to add folders, protected statuses, etc are completely discarded?

Surely it would be so much easier for people to find the RIGHT VI from a PPL if instead of seeing a flat list of VIs like this:

 

They were to see something much more like the what they get in a project view:

 

(In this particular example things are extreme as the lvlibp is a plugin interface so it has an awful lot of protected VIs, that the "user" of the PPL does not care about (and cannot even use directly).

Surely something can be done with this dialog that looks like it hasn't been touched since Windows 3.1!?

[shew82]

This improvement would also really help TestStand work (which is our main use case for packed libraries) - in the TestStand environment, this is our main view into choosing a VI.

[shew82]

Such a shame... I just opened TestStand 2013 and things really are not much better at all... no folders, no nothing, only an ever-so-slightly prettier dialog. Please consider changing this back out of beta as the new view is really not a functional improvement (e.g. in the listing below, you tell me which are the public VIs that should be used and which are the internal/protected functions from the class hierarchy)

[shew82]

Whoops... Forgot that this thread started off life in LabVIEW... LabVIEW seems to have exactly the same Windows 3.1 dialog 😞

[Darren]

This idea was erroneously moved to the "In Beta" status. I am moving it back to "Open".