Optionally show VI path in context help?

[Mr._Jim]

Alright, I have another suggestion:

Sometimes it would be helpful to me to be able to optionally view a VI's path when examining it via context help.

If the path is too long, it could somehow be truncated so as to present a subset of it.

As a source control user, most of the time I don't worry too much about cross linking files.  Sometimes, though, when I'm moving VIs from one codebase to another, for instance, this feature would be handy.  Otherwise I have to keep opening VI properties repeatedly to determine that the correct instance is being linked.  (Is there a better way?  I'm somewhat embarrassed to say that I haven't found one.)

Now, I also understand that some may have reservations about adding more information to the context help window, and this is understandable.  This is why I suggest making this a checkbox under the LabVIEW options dialog.

[FraggerFox]

It would be really helpful to have the VI path instantly, without having the need to go to VI Properties>General to get the path.

Also, the user should be able to copy the path to clipboard which is displayed in the Context Help, that would be one nice feature to have!

[Mr._Jim]

Thanks Fragger Fox - it's good to know I'm not alone in this!

[CMal]

I'm pretty sure you can already do this by clicking the "Show Optional Terminals and Full Path" button at the bottom left corner of the context help window.

-Chris

[Mr._Jim]

CMal, thank you!

With apologies to those whom I had misled to affix their "kudos", my suggestion is hereby withdrawn.

It's weird - I could have sworn that I had seen the functionality somewhere!  Now I know...

[G-Money]

Functionality already in LabVIEW

[elset191]

It's already in LabVIEW, but I don't much care for the implementation.  When I turn it on, my Context Help window suddenly takes up half the horizontal distance of my monitor.  Any way it could use multiple lines or something?  I also kind of like the image in the idea how it's dim and out of the way.  Having the title and the path rather than the title being the path I think would be a win for this.