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I miss the possibility to 

 

- add COM compatibility to .NET Interop Assembly builds

- add COM  compatibility to Shared DLL builds

 

 

I missed LV help information about the need to add a key file (*.snk) to the project first, before you can select it for signing the assembly. Unless you do that the file filter (*.snk) seems to fail when browsing.

I would love to have an option to remove scrollbars from block diagram.  I have been using LabVIEW since 2001 and I am constantly having to modify code from engineers who are using LabVIEW for the first time.  If there was a way to enforce the good practice of making the block diagram the size of a single screen, this would help me a ton.  I realize that developers use computers with different screen resolutions so the option to display scrollbars still needs to be there but it would be great if it could be disabled.

The Lego NXT software release (not toolkit) is a wonderful interactive environment, that should be provided as an add-on application

on its own, call it "block application builder".  I see many useful applications in a variety of different industries where businesses wish to extend to their customers interactive and intuitive interface that they can program in their desired configuration of the product's behavior according to their own use cases.

 

That means we need an environment where we can prepackage blocks that is functionally specific to their applications, with ability to sequence them, run them in parallel, add conditional runs, and iterative loops. The blocks themselves could be computational in nature, or additionally provide user interface popups for interrogating the user, and have access to the full range of Labview functionality. Each block properties settings can appear as front panel settings for user to customize the behavior of that block. This is exactly how the

Log mindstorm software was configured, except we ask that you extend the availability of that functionality for the general users to develop their own intuitive applications using the same environment framework design. This application can target building the customer created sequence of operations as a windows .exe or .dll. We also would like to customize the menus in the application. In other  words, make the Lego mindstorm application a generic template for us to develop our own applications with similar intuitive framework.

For controls and indicators created through Block Diagram, the display of the Label in the BD can be made invisible by right clicking on it and select Visible items. I used to do this often when my diagram gets bigger and bigger.

 

Oops lot of mouse strokes.... Instead if by simply pressing delete key, if the label gets invisible, then it will be very good and easy..... Just a thought. Please comment on this.

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In large application there are huge amount of parameters. If there is a lot of parameters usually there is also lot of parameter handling code in block diagram. This code can be moved to away if there is ready mayde parameter handling system. Here are my basic needs\ideas to this kind of system: 

 

- Parameter values are read from e.g. CSV-file when there is a first call 

- Parameter value must be changeable during code execution

- When value is changed new value must be updated to e.g. CSV-file

- User can change parameter name from project view. The new name is updated to all block diagrams (compare to shared variables)

- New parameters can be created from project view

- All parameter values can be changed and read from block diagram by using proper VIs

- Parameter library settings e.g CSV-file format and name can be set in project view

 

Is there any one else who needs this kind of system?

Make a new menu item available in the structures contextual menu (like the auto-grow) to enable automatic wiring off wires that go through the structure in other cases, events or sequences.

Why did National change the way pasting objects on either the front panel or block diagram?

In 8.2 the paste (Ctrl-V) would paste the clipboard where the cursor was last clicked. 

In 8.6 (or possibly 8.6.1) it always pastes it in the center of the panel or diagram and is floating.

This is very annoying.