LabVIEW Idea Exchange

I like using Linux whenever I can, particularly when running large software like LabVIEW, since it tends to crawl on my XP systems. I was happy to realize that LabVIEW works on Linux, but soon after I was disappointed by the lack of usefulness of it when interfacing with hardware. I need to use the RealTime module to interface with my RealTime Compact-RIO. I also need Linux support for the FPGA module, as I need to program the FPGA attached to my cRIO. I'm sure I am not the only person who would like the ability to do this.

Without support for any of the hardware or LabVIEW modules I need, the Linux version of LabVIEW is entirely useless to me, and XP as an OS simply cannot perform up to par for me.

I, like many others I am sure, have multiple LV versions installed on my computer.

I have often wished for a small launcher program (linked into Explorer.exe under Windows) which has a peek to see what version a VI (or ctl or whatever) is BEFORE calling the respective LV version.

It could also have an option to show a dialog whenever a VI is double clicked in a version different to a version of LV which is ALREADY open asking if it should be opened in the native version or in the currently opened version.

An alternative would be to treat VIs opened from a different version as locked (read-only), forcing either a manual setting of write permissions or saving under a different name.

Shane.

Tabbing will work for clusters on the front panel, currently we are using "Ctl+Down arrow key" to focus control in the cluster "Ctl+Up Arrow Key" to come out from the cluster

For use Tabbing feature for clusters, I need to use "Ctl+Down arrow key"/"Ctl+Up Arrow Key".

While tabbing on the front panel is there any way LabVIEW automatically detects the Clusters and it will directly focus the first element of the cluster and when you click Tab on last element in the cluster it will come out and focus the next availble control outside the Cluster (if next control is again Cluster it will focus the first element of the next cluster)

Provide a way to compile an xcontrol, to have only 1 file to distribute.

Let’s take the Value Changed from OpenG, This polymorphic as 30+ VIs to support all data type and array size up to 2D. But basically it’s the same VI for all data type.

The radio button control acts like a cluster container for booleans with some fancy logic behind it. Refactoring old code, we might have a bunch of customized booleans that we want to stick in a radiobutton control during refactoring.

For some unknown reason, we have to first drop at least one of the desired booleans into the control before we can delete the last one of the default controls that were already in there. I think we could get better work flow when doing these edits if we remove this random barrier that forces us to operate in a certain order. It would be nice if we could first empty out the radio button control and then drop all our desired customized controls in it. Of course a VI with an empty radio button control should probably be broken.

In summary, an empty radio button control should be allowed at edit time. We should be able to temporarily remove all existing content. Currently, LabVIEW won't let us remove the last remaining element if we try to do so.

(Hopefully, this is a trivial change and not something that would require lots of changes to the existing code) 😉