Tabbing between front panel elements should be possible at Edit Time

[Petru_Tarabuta]

Suppose a front panel contains the three elements seen below, with the first one being selected.

In the situation above currently pressing Tab does nothing. It would be useful if, instead, pressing Tab would cycle the element selection to the next element in the tabbing order, as seen below.

If Tab was pressed again, it would cycle to the next element in the tabbing order, as seen below. And so on.

Notes

• This idea would speed up development by enabling us to cycle through element selection without using the mouse.
• When used in conjunction with the F2 idea, this would enable us to use Tab + F2 combinations to quickly cycle through elements and rename their labels and/or captions.
• This idea could be extended to terminals on the block diagram. Suppose a terminal is selected on the block diagram, pressing tab would navigate to another terminal on the block diagram.
• I'm aware that currently it is possible to use Tab or Shift+Tab to cycle between elements forwards or backwards when the VI is in Run Mode (Ctrl + M). While that is useful, this idea asks for more.

Thanks!

[Petru_Tarabuta]

P.S. Perhaps a more accurate idea title would be "Tabbing between front panel elements should be possible during Edit Mode".

[wiebe@CARYA]

Traditionally, tabbing switches tool. It still does, if the auto tool is off.

But if auto tool is on, tab seems to be available... It just might work.

[Petru_Tarabuta]

Thanks for pointing that out. I never noticed that, perhaps because I have the auto tool selected 99.5% of the time.