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carls__

Option to disable automatically adding new VIs to open project

Status: New

If you've got a project open, any new VIs you create automatically get added to the project.  It'd be nice if there was a way to disable this feature.

 

I find the feature frustrating because:

- I often create new VIs that I never intend to save, just to test out some logic quickly.  However, I can't just close the VI -- I need to go and remove it from the project too -- and this also leads to a dirty dot in my project (and extra work).

- I'd prefer to have full control over which VIs get added to my projects, and where they added within a project.

- If you've got more than one project open, you have to be careful about where you press "ctrl+n" from.

- I've found myself in situations where I close a project after creating a new VI, tell LabVIEW that I don't want to save changes to the project, and by doing so inadvertently lose the code in the new VI because I'd overlooked that automatic association.

 

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I also find auto-adding my quick-n-dirty vi's to the project annoying.

I was hoping to find some back-door work around for it in the comments, but alas, there are none.

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Former Certified LabVIEW Developer (CLD)