Richer Property Dialogs for Structures

[altenbach]

Structures have many right-click options, but the property dialogs are currently very sparse (only label and subdiagram label). Let's compare the current right-click options of a FOR loop with the actual properties dialog, and we can see that many useful properties are missing (visibility of conditional terminal, autogrow setting, etc.). The parallelization has it's own standalone dialog, why not have all these settings on a new tab instead?

I propose that these scattered properties should all be integrated into the single properties dialog to keep things better organized. Here's how the properties dialog of a FOR loop could look like after implementation of this idea.

 

Similar changes could be made for all other structures.

[altenbach]

There should also be an entry for the visibility and string of the subdiagram label.

[Darin.K]

Am I the only one who wants to double-click on that structure to get the property window?

[GregSands]

Double-click++

[JKSH]

+1 for the richer dialogs.

Not sure about double-clicking though -- if implemented, the shortcut to bring up the Properties dialog should be consistent for all BD elements (VIs, structures, terminals, constants, shared element nodes, etc.). However, the double-click mechanism for is already used to find FP objects (for terminals), to edit a value (for constants), or to browse for variables (for shared variable nodes)

[altenbach]

A more universal idea has been posted here.

[zou]

Take a look the examples at:

http://webspace.webring.com/people/og/gtoolbox/CustomizePropertyPages.html

You can do it yourself.

[Petru_Tarabuta]

+1 for this idea and +1 for the more universal idea.

"Am I the only one who wants to double-click on that structure to get the property window?" - No. I too would like a quicker way to access the property window (a common operation). I proposed the following ideas:

1. New gesture: Alt + double-click on front panel element should open the Properties page 

2. New keyboard shortcut: Alt + double-click to open Properties in Project Explorer (similar to Windows... 

If both ideas above were implemented then Alt + double-click would be a unified gesture that can open the properties window of virtually any item (in the block diagram, front panel, and project explorer).