LabVIEW Idea Exchange

Change the VI Properties Dialog to be able to reach the desired option with a single click, Instead of using the drop down menu.

It will be more clear and fast to access properties. 

OK, this may be a bit of a way-out-there suggestion but here goes.....

There are times when I would really like to be able to create some kind of "overlay" for an entire FP.  I'd actually like for an overlay for the entire available screen, but let's not get TOO far ahead of ourselves.

Uses may include user direction (highlighting in RED) or some menu-like interaction or whatever....

I know this can be simulated using a picture control but then all user interaction goes to the picture display which must be on top for it to work....

Or how about something like the Wafeform graph with Back Middle and top pictures available.....

Shane.

Who has ever made a cluster typedef, then added some elements, then added more, then a little more? Have you noticed the "typedef explosion" of your block diagram as a result, with constants overlapping other code? Make a right-click option to "link" a bundle by name to a typedef. Note that the two pieces of code below would be identical, but the bundle on left would not suffer from typedef explosion. In addition, have a selectable menu

Another idea is to link the bundle to the destination:

Quite often I find myself running a new bit of code which contains an untested modal subvi somewhere in it's bowels, to find that the when called the modal subvi doesn't exit. Clearly there's a little bug in my code, but now I'm stuck. The modal vi has all the focus of LabVIEW, I can't close the vi, I can't abort the vi. Nothing is accessible, including the Project Explorer window.

Now what I need here is a LabVIEW Running VIs Task Manager, which allows me to simply scroll down a list of open and running vis, and abort the one that's stealing my focus.

It would probably have to operate outside the development environment to avoid being supressed itself, but presumably a standalone executable can link into LabVIEW through the server port and access the list of running vis with server calls.

This would save me from having to use Windows Task Manager and killing LabVIEW (and potentially any unsaved work)

When creating a subVI from a selection, LabVIEW should do two things:

1. Use the user's default connector pane pattern instead of selecting one matching the number of inputs and outputs. This will make easier wiring and allow users to add more IO later.
2. If the user is using a "standard" pattern (e.g. 4-2-2-4), LabVIEW should try placing the error clusters at the bottom corners and objects or references at the top corners.

It should also try to make the FP of the subVI cleaner, but that's another matter.

I have often wished that LV have some easy way to display simple text with parts of the text marked BOLD, Italic or different colour in one display.

I think there has been an XControl created fror this, but it's be nice to have a proper "formatted Text" indicator / Control in LabVIEW.

No picture as I think everyone knows what is meant.

Shane.