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AristosQueue (NI)

Shift-Enter should define word wrap bounds on Free Labels

Status: New

You might not know this, but if you drop a String constant on the block diagram (or create one from a terminal), you can use shift+enter to define the bounds as you type.

 

You start typing the first line. As you type, the constant gets larger. Hit shift+enter. Now as you continue typing, the string constant grows vertically only, using word wrap at the bounds of the string constant. Now hit shift+enter again. The string stops growing vertically and the vertical scrollbar appears on the constant. 

 

This behavior is very nice for creating string constants inside of structure nodes without having to create the item, then resize it, then come back and start typing your text. 

 

Wouldn't it be nice if the same shift+enter trick worked when typing free labels?  I think so.

12 Comments
Sam_Sharp
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My colleague had told me about this months and months ago about being able to do it in string constants and I had completely forgotten about it. I was just asking him again about how you do it because I've been trying a few times in free labels and it wasn't working and then came across this idea and had to +1 it. My colleague said "OH! I thought you were talking about string constants..." GRRR!

 

Extremely frustrating as when the label grows longer it makes structures grow or disappears behind the edge of the structure and then you have to do lots of clicks to move/resize it and put it back in the appropriate place.


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