Right click context menue in MS word style - better visibility of items, less mouse movements

[Andi_S]

The length of the right click context menue (mainly in the block diagram) increases in each new LabVIEW version. So the handling becomes more and more uncomfortable - especially because there is no eye-catcher for the different entries.

There es one program who is doing it much better: MS-Word 2013. There are much more functions in the right click menu in comparison to the LabVIEW menue but it is more comfortable and the items are easier to find because of the icons => Have a look to the picuture.

I'd like to suggest to implement a context sensitive right click menue in the style of MS Office to re-align the existing items and beeing ready for further extensions of the menue.
Beside giving the current menue entries a new style also some of the properties of the structures which are selected could be moved to this new menue (e.g. text styles, number formats, basic alignment, grouping, ...).

[AristosQueue (NI)]

Are you aware of the LabVIEW Software Technology Preview released at NIWeek 2016?

http://www.ni.com/en-us/support/software-technology-preview.html

[X.]

The Tech Preview actually gets rid of most context menus by placarding a bunch of sticky panels left and right.

I wouldn't therefore call this suggestion "in Development", unless it refers to something entirely different from what we have been shown in the Tech Preview.

For Loop context menu:

Case Structure context menu:

[Darren]

Available in LabVIEW NXG. The right-click menus in NXG provide commonly-used features, while most object-specific configuration has been moved over to the configuration pane. Additionally, very common operations (like Create Constant, Control, Indicator) have been moved to a graphical menu directly above the right-click position.