Undo Snapshot

[Chris.Osiecki]

I think it would be nice to have a "soft save" or code snapshot as part of the undo functionality. Often times there are multiple steps involved in any chnage you want to test. It would be nice if, rather than saving your VI (which you might not want or be able to do) you could make a soft save or snapshot of your code, make the changes you want and then be able to switch between the changes you made and your snapshot with a single action.

Right now, if you made 20 actions to change your code, you would have to CTL+Z 20 times to go back to your original code, and then CTL+SHIFT+Z 20 more times if you decided to redo your changes. Perhaps CTL+ALT+X could take the snapshot, you could modify your code and CTL+ALT+Z could toggle between the two.

[X.]

You may want to vote for this idea, which, if implemented (don't dream though) may provide the functionality you are looking for. Or if not, I would suggest referencing your idea within it so that NI can build a list of feature requests for the next undo-redo.

[SteenSchmidt]

Maybe something like "Versions" in documents in OS X Lion? Look here: http://www.tuaw.com/2011/07/20/os-x-lion-auto-save-and-versions-to-the-rescue/

With that you can simply browse through layered versions of the same document (in our case a block diagram) as with Time Machine.

/Steen

[Darren]

Any idea that has not received any kudos within a year after posting will be automatically declined.