LabVIEW Idea Exchange

Not unlike Allow the Distribute Tool to work on Wires, there is a feature missing on the Front Panel for object organization: the ability to quickly set absolute postions of controls, indicators, and decorations. Consider this new option "Set Position" I have added to the Resize Objects menu on the FP toolbar:

Selecting this option would bring up a modal window that is almost identical to the Resize Objects Dialogue:

Of course, you know what happens next... ahhhh, much better.

(And a shameless plug for a related, older post that really needs your consideration: Rework front panel object alignment by Matthew Kelton)

In LabVIEW 7.1 it was possible to select a single letter and format the font (Bold, Underline), without having to affect the rest of the letters.

Since LabVIEW 8.x (verified in 8.5) it is no longer possible to do so.  This was discovered while coding in LabVIEW 2009 SP1.

See images below:

In the above images, only the 'S' in Select was bold and underlined, whereas trying to do the same in more recent versions of LabVIEW causes the entire text to be formatted.  Why remove a good-working feature?

Please bring back that feature.

Thanks,

RayR

How did a program made for engineers and scientists make it 20+ years and not allow for subscripts and superscripts to be displayed. 

E=MC2 is really not all that powerful.

Are there no chemistry math or physics applications developed.

One nice method for implementing this is to add an additional mode to string display called markup bhere simple tags could be added around characters to alter their appearance much like is done in HTML.

In the project explorer, dragging an item into a folder opens that folder AFTER the drop. This is annoying. But I digress...

In fact, what would be useful is to have the behavior of the two file explorers I am familiar with (Windows and Mac OS), that is:

- if an object is drop onto a folder icon, the folder does not open (see link above)

- if the object is held for a while over the folder icon, the folder opens

This is particularly helpful if the project explorer has a hierarchical structure of Virtual Folders:

If I drag Untitled 1.vi over the Action folder and hold it here for ever, nothing happens, and in particular, I can't access any of the the subfolders.

After dropping it, I get this:

Now the top folder is open, but the VI is nowhere where I want it to be and I need to repeat the drag & drop action.

This example doesn't do justice to the real issue which is that for large lists of VIs and folders in a project, this becomes a real problem, as VI and target folders (after everything is opened to provide a clear path from original to target destination) may end up separated by large amount of space in the project explorer and you now have to use the temperamental "Drag the object over the 1-pixel wide location at the top of the project explorer to trigger scrolling" feature in order to slowly bring the object to its remote destination.

It would be very helpful if there was a way of seeing the full lists of two different enum type defs at the same time and edit both lists simultaneously.  Right now if you click the button to edit elements in a enum it locks out LabView so that you cannot see the list of elements in another enum.  It is also really frustrating that in the edit window there is no way to increase the size so that you can see more than 6 elements or make the Item column larger to see long enum elements.

Then there is no way to add more than 6 items easily to the bottom of the list.  You have to hit insert and it puts the element second from last and then you have to move down.  It should be more like an array or table where you can just type and hit enter and add a lot of elements easily, resize and see as many as you want without having to scroll if you want a full window of the enum.