Tab View for Multiple Open LabVIEW VIs and Project Files

[Kareem_W.]

Currently, when you have multiple LabVIEW VIs or projects open, there are individual windows associated with each. (2 for each VI) This can quickly get out of hand. I would like to see a Tab View implemented similar to internet browsers. Thus, each LabVIEW session (i.e. each VI or project currently open) would be represented by a single tab within one "master" LabVIEW window. When you click on a particular tab, the block diagram (or front panel, depending on which one you last viewed) is displayed for that particular VI. Each project would have its own tab as well. This feature should help users to better manage multiple open VIs and projects. 

[Wart]

I'm in love with this idea.  Treat projects like browser windows - a new one for each project.  VIs in that project work like tabs in the project.  If there was a plugin interface for LabVIEW I'm sure someone would have written something like this ages ago.

I'd like to see an option to force a front panel and associated block diagram have to be side by side.  It's obnoxious when my front panel gets hidden and then then later reappears at a different point of my task bar.  Though I do understand why this has to work the way it does.

[Darin.K]

Is this a reincarnation of the MDI?

http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/LabVIEW-IDE-Overhaul/idi-p/952251