Programmatic Control of Grid Alignment Properties

[Kosta]

I am not happy when I inherit legacy code where VIs have inconsistent alignment grid options, as shown in the image below.

My team has coding standards we follow, and those standards include alignment grid options. It is labor-intensive to change alignment grid options on legacy VIs because you have to do it by hand, and clicks quickly add up. I wish I could automate such changes.

I’d like to see a few new properties to expose settings available in the editor, as shown below.

These properties need to support both read and write.

[wiebe@CARYA]

Actually I was hoping for a decent API to set the global environment properties (e.g. "Get Environment Property.vi" / "Set Environment Property.vi"). But indeed, changing the ini file will do that... It ain't pretty though.

Setting properties by name, returning an error if it's not there, can be made. So although having this build in would be nice, it's not a necessity for NI to provide.

[Darren]

Available in LabVIEW 2019. There are two new properties of the VI class: Block Diagram Window:Alignment Grid Size and Front Panel Window:Alignment Grid Size.

[Kosta]

Thank you!

It so happens that I recently inherited some VIs with inconsistent grid sizes. I'm looking forward to writing scripting tools to harmonize them.