Scroll through palettes using mousewheel

[Sam_Sharp]

I'm sure we've all been there - with so many toolkits and palettes available for LabVIEW (and sometimes many VI's/Functions within them) it's very easy to end up with a functions palette that's taller than your screen. So LabVIEW adds a scrollbar - it is not possible, however, for you to scroll through the palette using the scroll wheel on the mouse.

The current situation:

Using the mouse scroll-wheel will only scroll the front panel or block diagram - you cannot scroll through the functions palette using the mouse scrollwheel. I have tried this in LabVIEW 8.6, 2009 and 2010 and it has not yet been added.

The proposed solution:

If the mouse cursor is over the functions palette and it has a scrollbar - scroll through the palette instead of the block diagram/front panel.

Why?

Because it'll make navigating through large palettes with lots of functions or large numbers of palettes easier. It is also a natural habit of anyone seeing a scrollbar to use the mousewheel to scroll through the items.

[luwang]

We appreciate your suggestion!

Palette is a kind of floating window in LabVIEW, it's behavior is designed to be consistent with how floating window behave generally in LabVIEW.  So, we don't see this as a bug. Of course, your suggestion can help improve the usability of the palette. As a feature request, we certainly could change the behavior, although that would require substantial reworking of how floating windows are implemented in LabVIEW. It is something we would do if this idea gets sufficient kudos, but otherwise, other ideas seem like a better place to spend effort.

Thanks again for using LabVIEW and giving us your feedback!

[Tommy77]

why has this not been implemented yet? It is so glaringly obvious and anoying that I actually thought this was a bug in my mouse software and not something missing from labview. ADD THIS! (pretty please)

[CamilleBC]

How is it still not possible ? It's quite annoying how a simple function like that has not been implemented (unless it is a bug, or a setting I overlooked, in which case I apologise).

[RavensFan]

Then be sure to click on the kudoes button if you like it that much.

These ideas don't vote for themselves!

[CamilleBC]

Didn't notice you could do much, I pretty much never used the forum.  🙂

It's done now though, thanks for the info!

[14gipper]

The issue certainly isn't a bug, but it is definitely a deficiency in features. Please add, kuduos above given.