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Michael.Proctor

Separate Results Windows for Find and Find All Instances of a Vi

Status: Declined

Any idea that has received less than 2 kudos within 2 years after posting will be automatically declined.

 

To help with code maintenance and debugging and general help to navigate around code,

I would like to have separate results windows for the Find... ie cntrl-F and the Find All Instances of a Vi commands.

 

 

3 Comments
AristosQueue (NI)
NI Employee (retired)

Why? I know you said, "To help with code maintenance and debugging and general help to navigate around code," but I need a bit of help to see how this change would help. What steps would actually be different in your development process if we had this? Knowing that will help us put these windows in the right places (do they need to be attached to each other? Related in any way?) and handle things like ctrl+g -- which Find results does that shortcut key iterate through?

Michael.Proctor
Member

My work flow can be:

 

1. Search for string that might define some calling task.

2. Search results show vis that have this string associated with them

3. Upon inspection there maybe one for more vis that I then wish to see all instances where they are used.

4.  Click on Show All Instances of this vi

5. Now if I then wish to review the vis that have use the initial search string I need to re-search

but then I loose the listing of the vi that I had wish to Show All Instances.

So I go back and forth re-searching the text and re-Show All Instances.

 

While ctrl_G might be useful it would not help me as i need to see a window of all the search results - both of the string search and of the Show All Instances

 

 

Darren
Proven Zealot
Status changed to: Declined

Any idea that has received less than 2 kudos within 2 years after posting will be automatically declined.