Show the highlighted error in the centre of the window

[matt.baker]

When clicking the Show Error from the Error list dialog it (attempts to) highlights the error, but this can be difficult to see sometimes as the position is not constant (sometimes top left corner, sometimes bottom right, middle etc.). If there was an option to auto pan the block diagram/front panel so that the error always appeared in the centre of the window it would make it much easier/consistent to find (IMO).

Normally it does an okay job, it's just something that could be improved

Hidden by tool palette:

http://i.imgur.com/Q8JeKZo.gifv

Bonus broken one:

http://i.imgur.com/BzZpivS.gifv

I've also had instances where the highlighed error is very small and hard to spot.

[AristosQueue (NI)]

What version of LabVIEW are you using? I fixed pretty much the exact bug you are showing (where the highlight comes up in empty space) in LV 2016. I want to know if you're using an old version or if I missed a trick when putting the fix in.

As for centering in general, when the error is already on the screen, we don't scroll, and that's a deliberate choice to avoid messing up front panel scroll positions and the developer's mental map of Where Things Are. Position turns out to be rather key to navigation in a graphical language.

But I'll leave the idea open in case enough customers think that centering would help more, at least on the block diagram. For panel layout reasons, I doubt we would ever do this on the panel.

[matt.baker]

This is LV 16.0 (32-bit). I submitted a bug report about this today (SR 7470542), so no doubt you'll see this pop up at some point. Here is the file; excuse the mess: https://goo.gl/T1Ih3N

That's what I thought as well, about the front panel. Maybe if there was a check box in the dialog (as below - British spelling optional 😉 ) or an action listed in a a right click context menu for each error listed.

[AristosQueue (NI)]

Thanks.

[Darren]

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