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carlos_camargo

Make VIs show up in correct monitor's taskbar and be independent of others

Status: New

Currently VI's show up in whatever taskbar's monitor they first showed up in and don't follow if they are moved to a different monitor.

This makes my workflow very difficult as I can end up with 18 VI icons (1 each block diagram and front panel) on Monitor 2 and 0 VI icons on  Monitor 1.  This despite the fact that might have moved have of the VI representations to Monitor 1.  The only way to distribute them among the taskbars is to restart windows explorer.  This is annoying to have to do even though I have a script to do it (thanks to the hero that posted that process!).

 

Relatedly, I don't always want all VIs to pop up when I want one to show up.  I should be able to bring a block diagram up without having every other VI front panel and block diagram also pop up.  Then I have to go and minimize each window individually so I can look at a document or spreadsheet at the same time.

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ajbradford
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I know this doesn't really address the idea you're proposing, but just as a soft workaround, you can use Power Toys to fix another window to the front of the screen. I use that all the time so I don't have to minimize VIs.