LabVIEW Idea Exchange
I come across many situations where the value that needs to be entered into a numeric control is not readily available but has to be computed (For example: I need to enter the value 679.5/23.2 into the numeric control), then I would need the help of a calculator to compute this division answer, copy and past it back in the LabVIEW control.
So it would be good if we support basic math operations (+-*/^%) in the numeric control (and constants?) so that even if I enter 679.5/23.2 or 2^23 or 172857+3675 in the numeric control, it evaluates the math expression in edit time and assigns the value to the control. This would less than 5% of the time it takes currently in LabVIEW.
(One other option would be to change the code to accept 2 controls and use the division primitive. But this may not be feasible if the VI is built into an application or if the operation is a one time calculation that need not be repeated, or if the math operation that is done to calculate the input to the numeric is different each time,etc)
