LabVIEW Idea Exchange

This is a "repost" of an idea back from 2009 - I would like to see if it will get any traction now.  

Original idea Here

 

I have been using the DETT pretty extensively for the last few weeks, and would love to see some simple usability improvements with a few additions for automation.

1. Better handlling of arrow up, arrow down and page up/down key strokes.  It is very jerky when scrolling through pages of a long trace

2. Addition of a search function - especially for user defined strings.  I use them as placeholders to indicate where I am in a sequence of events, and having an easy way to find them would be great.

3. Rolling save of logs.  It is way to easy to run out of memory and lose a trace.  Having a way to automatically stop and save a log and start a new one would be a great way to automate data collection.  Here is a screenshot of how Wireshark does it:

 

 

Feel free to add more thoughts, these are just a few of my major ones.

 

Rob

VI Analyzer has a spell check ability (woo hoo!!)

You can even add custom words to a custom dictionary, for the case where you have a need to.

However, for a out-of-the-box spell check system for an application used heavily by the Test and Measurement community, I was very discouraged I needed to add words such as

Agilent

GHz

preamp

to the custom dictionary to stop getting them flagged as misspelled.

How about a standard out-of-the-box dictionary refresh to include technical terms commonly used in T&M applications?

LabVIEW should ship with a Set Operations palette item, including the common operations such as Union, Intersection, Complement, and Cartesian Product, as well as more advanced operations that I don't know about. These operations would act on 1D arrays of almost anything. Floating point numbers and those would have to have some kind of "error in value" input that defaults to the machine epsilon or equality checking. Output would be a 1D array on the input datatype with the values, and perhaps an output for matched indices.

 

Yes, these are quite easy to make yourself (loop+search), but I think that it would be beneficial for the community for NI to provide it. The VIs found at http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/epd/p/id/3929  are... Interesting, to say the least. NI might be able to provide better performance, too.

One thing I like about using Project Libraries is the ability to configure an Icon for the library that is overlaid on all of its new VIs. If you change this icon, you are asked, whether you want to apply this to all the VIs in the library. Unfortunately, once you have created the icon, there is no simple way to re-apply this icon to VIs and CTLs that you have added to the library. You can work around it using a few property and invoke nodes to programmatically call the proper method, but a simple button on the 'General' page of the library properties would make things a lot easier.