LabVIEW Idea Exchange

cancel
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 
balexand

Link to typedefs and classes in Context Help

Status: New

When you are working with typedefs and classes in LabVIEW, context help can be very useful to sumarize everything that is contained in the class.  This list can get very long if the class gets complicated, and has other references to other classes.  If you want to know the full path to one of these typedefs, or you want to look at the class library, it would be nice it you could click on the filename and it would open that item in another window.

 

classcontexthelp.png

 

Otherwise you have to do some looking around to figure out what exact typedef or class the VI is referring to.

2 Comments
fabric
Active Participant
... Or at least allow "Right-click>>Show Class Library" to zap to the item in the project, just like you can currently do with objects on the BD.
smithd
Active Participant

It would also be pretty cool to have a tag for documentation which could be used to link to other VIs--I can only think of a few minor use cases right now (for example, the help for a standard open-r/w-close API could have links to read and write on the open VI's context help, and then a link to the close VI on the help for read and write. It would also be nice to point to a different parent or child class in certain situations), but if context help could be changed to enable your idea I bet it could be used to enable this as well.