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JackDunaway

Make CTRL+SHIFT+E Reflexive

Status: New

Consider how CTRL+E toggles between the BD and FP, back and forth. Likewise, it would be nice if CTRL+Shift+E toggled between the VI and its corresponding Project Item.

 

Currently, when viewing a VI window, CTRL+Shift+E will highlight the Project Item -- but this action is unidirectional -- pressing the same key combo again does not take you back to the VI (it just does nothing).

 

Oh, and, Reflexive... is that the right word? Bidirectionality? You get the drift. Here's an illustration:

 

CTRL-SHIFT-E-Reflexive.gif

3 Comments
JÞB
Knight of NI

A No-brainer improvement but, if working on this means missing something else, back burner it.  (Could be a "very late" option in a release in cycle - when you have all the bugs tweaked out)


"Should be" isn't "Is" -Jay
James@Work
Member

It seems like an easier task of getting to the VI in the project tree; there's only one instance.
However, the reverse is not necessarily true when navigating from the project tree.

I'd like to see the same right-click menu option that is available from the VI on the block diagram?
That code should already be available to just copy and paste to a new menu??

 

Tech Advisor - Automation
LabVIEW 5.0 - 2020
elset191
Active Participant

This seems like a fine place to mention that ctrl+shift+e does not seem to work when called from a clone.

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Tim Elsey
Certified LabVIEW Architect