Show shortcuts in use on Front Panel / Block Diagrams.

[GreennRed]

Hi,

This is probably unfeasible but, as I study online, it could be useful to some? I watch Labview videos on NI site and on Youtube and some movements take a lot of deciphering as the tutor is using shortcuts but not referencing them. As I get more confident with them I try using some shortcuts that I pickup in class, videos or documents like : https://zone.ni.com/reference/en-XX/help/371361H-01/lvhowto/keyboard_shortcuts/

But for most online Labview tutors using shortcuts is  second-nature to them and they rarely reference them as they demonstrate. Could Labview include, maybe to the right of the help option, a window displaying shortcuts like 'Ctrl + J' as it is being used. That way a student would no exactly how some actions are done, rather than looking at menu  options unnecessarily, while also getting themselves more familiar with using the shortcuts.

Regards,

Tony

[wiebe@CARYA]

Would be good to have shortcuts in video's, but I don't think LabVIEW should include it.

KeyPosé can do that, as shown in this youtube video. Or Showoff...

[thols]

Or KeypressOSD: https://autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=225

[wiebe@CARYA]

>Or KeypressOSD: https://autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=225

Couldn't find the download of that myself, thanks. Note that showoff also uses AutoHotKey, wrapped in an executable.

Good point of OP though to start using this in presentations\videos.

[GreennRed]

Cheers lads. Like I said, probably unfeasible to add it to Labview. Hopefully more online tutors could use the likes of Keypose or KeypressOSD to make their videos a better learning experience and improve their trainer profiles as a result.

[Darren]

National Instruments will not be implementing this idea. See the idea discussion thread for 3rd party solutions to this issue. 

[GreennRed]

No bother Darren. The 3rd party solutions are good workarounds.