LabVIEW Idea Exchange

String controls, such as the Text control of the Configure Build Text VI, should ignore keyboard shortcuts which they don't support instead of interpreting these as the alphabet character key pressed.

For example, currently CTRL+A isn't supported to select all. Instead the character 'a' is added to the string at the current position.

It would be better if combinations of key presses that are not supported are disregarded. For example, I have a habit of hitting CTRL+S to save whatever it is I'm working on frequently. If I inadvertently do this within a string control on a dialog then I will find I've just added 's' to the string.

This is in addition to New LabVIEW Installation Retains Options

During LabVIEW installation if it detects a previous version of LabVIEW has been installed it should present the user with the option (or have a flag when running the installation to allow this to be done silently) to import all VIs which are not installed by default that are present in the following folders:

• vi.lib (VI Package Manager installs packages to this location by default)
• instr.lib
• user.lib

Upon importing the VIs to the new LabVIEW installation it should also mass compile them to the new LabVIEW version so the user is not faced with having to save loads of VI dependencies each time the user opens a VI which uses them.

This would make the getting started with the new version of LabVIEW a lot more seamless when just upgrading from a previous version.

I find myself constantly switching between Quick Drop and palette surfing for the functions I need. Sometimes I close the palettes just because they are in the way of where I want to drop a function. But I immediately need to reopen them to find my next function.

Can there be a setting in the palette options to hide or minimize the palete once I've selected a function from the control/function palette and once I've placed the item on my front panel/block diagram it will reopen to the same palette and spot?

if a control definition is missing we can replace the new control by coping the new control to clip board and pasting on top of the control. This preserves the wiring of the control on the connecter pane.

Similarly we can have the option to replace the missing VIs (?) by coping the new VIs in the clipboard and pasting it or

add an option on in the replace menu like replace from clipboard, and it will preserves the connections.  

When you change a global's variable name, all instances are not been updated, causing a broken arrow.

It must be done manually and it costs a lot of time.

There is an option "Find ALL instances" so i guess it is very easy to update all names automatically

For example, if I had a case structure with 50 cases and one variable in each case, I would like to be able to copy the case structure and have a new identical case structure with 50 matching local variables.  Currently it makes 50 new variables, so having the option to choose between generating new ones and generating locals of the existing would be extremely useful.