LabVIEW Idea Exchange

Whenever I built something (executable, installer) I want to go to the output location to change some filenames for distribution (e.g. I change "volume" folder of the installer to contain the name and version in the program name), zip things up to post on the server, etc.

On the final progress screen, where it tells me that the built has finished, I would like an additional button to open the target folder location(s) in explorer (similar to e.g. when downloading a file using IE) while dismissing the dialog.

Right now it says:

"The build is complete. you can locate the built at <very long and hard to remember path spread over 3-4 lines and that cannot be coped/pasted from this dialog anyway>."

Well, if the builder is smart enough to know where things are, why can't it just directly take me there as an option? 😄

Most of applications we write in LV are contained inside of a project. Saving it to disk creates a lot of files (.lvproj, .vi, .ctl, .aliases, etc) and subdirectories. This is convenient when you want to copy one VI or control to another project, but very inconvenient when sending this project to someone. In this case you have to create an archive to put everything together. Make an option to save all items contained in a project in one file.

Making a Windows Explorer plugin to automatically open such files as directories would be also a nice addition in this case.

Thanks

Labview implements lots of functionality in the right click menu, resulting in large and deep menu hierarchies.  Often I want to select multiple items, but the context menu disappears after a single selection requiring me to go back to the original item and renavigate the menu tree.  That's a lot of repetitive, fairly precise mousing.

I'd like to have a hot key that prevents the context menu from disappearing after I select an item.  For example, if I held down the Ctl key while deselecting "Label," I could immediately move down to "Caption" and select it, making the whole process much easier.