LabVIEW Idea Exchange

This is a follow on to this idea. After terminals are wired to growable nodes. Make it easier to move and reorder the terminals. The switcharoo tool exists if there are only two terminals but it is difficult if there are more. 

I suggest making it easier with a keyboard/mouse combination or mouse long hold or something like that, to select a terminal. Then let the user drag it to another terminal and drop it. If that terminal is wired swap the selected wire and the one dropped over. If not wired, move the wire connection to the terminal dropped over. 

If you have mulitple versions of LabVIEW installed, some of them show up in the "Open With" menu, but regardless of which item you select, the VI will always open in whichever version of LabVIEW was opened most recently.

Example: if I opened a legacy VI in LabVIEW 2009, closed that version of LabVIEW completely, and opened another VI using the "Open with" menu and selected LabVIEW 12..., LabVIEW 2009 is relaunched and is unable to open the VI because it should have launched in LabVIEW 2012.

The current workaround is to add all installed versions as options in the "Send to" menu, but this is not nearly as intuitive as using "Open with" would be.

Help! I need a way to pack more Classes onto my Block Diagrams!

This idea is simple and quite subtle- reduce the size of the Class Constant on the Block Diagram. The majority of the footprint belongs to the Class Icon, which cannot be sized smaller, but the additional border graphic that creates the "Object Cube" effect can be reduced to give a total footprint of 42x42 pixels down from 48x48 pixels. (If you're counting, that's a 42% reduction in "fluff", discounting the 32x32 that must remain!)

If you're not crazy about the first-draft artwork, feel free to post a new rendition in the Comments section!

Currently, the markers of intensity graphs are left-aligned with the intensity pixels. This is most noticable when graphing small arrays, but is a general problem. Have a look at the left picture (x0 and dx are at the default). There is one too many markers on each axis and it is errorprone to read out the coordinates of a certain pixel because it is always betwen two adjacent markers.

(If we graph a 1D array with 10 elements on a plain graph with the same size (loose fit off), the axis will go from 0..9. It is misleading to show another marker at 10 in the case of the intensity graph!)

Correct would be to center the axis markers on the pixels as simulated in the image on the right. Now the limits are correct!

The problem is even more severe with cursors locked to the plot. The cursors align with the markers and thus fall right between four adjacent pixels (left) while they should be smack dab in the middle of exactly one (right). Currently, we have a 25% chance of picking the right pixel with a cursor unless we are very carefully!

Idea summary: The markers of intensity graphs need to be centered on the graph pixels. Same for cursors.

(...of course the same applies to intensity charts and similar)

I would like to have an option to export a simplified image of a graph directly into png. The image formats available in LV2010 are bmp, eps, emf and pict. Png is superior to bmp with rougly 100-50 times smaller file sizes. At the moment if I want to export a simplified image of a graph to png then I have to use the extra code below or alternatively export the image to clipboard, paste that into a graphics editor an save it to png. It would be much more simple to have an option to directly export to png. My suggestions below:

Quick Drop (Ctrl+Space) should support replacement (Ctrl+P) on the block diagram terminal as well as the front panel icon. The front panel icon can be selected and replaced with another .lvclass but if its block diagram terminal is selected the replace does nothing.

Currently, the Third-Party Licensing and Activation Toolkit doesn't handle PPLs. This makes creating a plugin, pay-per-component architecture difficult.  Handling licensing and activation of PPLs is needed as part of TPLAT or some other mechanism.