LabVIEW Idea Exchange

I have noticed in some places in the LabVIEW IDE that the selected attribute is not properly highlighted. A perfect example is Cursor Attributes on a Waveform Graph:

The currently selected Point Style and Cursor Style Attributes are highlighted with a blue box, but the Line Style and Line Width are not highlighted with the current values. This is important to know, because it is difficult to tell the difference in line widths, and could even be impossible if the cursor is off the screen.

I can only find these two places right now that the current selection is not highlighted, but once I find more I'll post in the comments.

How about retaining the undo history after a VI has been saved? 

When designing larger user interfaces often times my event structure ends up with many cases sorted in no real order. Commonly there are multiple controls that trigger the same event case. It is cumbersome to try and find the particular event case where a control is handled.

What I would like to see is a Find -> Event in the shortcut menu for a control. We can currently search for the front panel control, local variables and property nodes if used. It seems logical that events should be included in that list as well.

Now that scripting is "legal" we need to be able to do more with it, when it comes to the event structure scripting is weak.

Here are a couple of discussions where people wish for more scripting functions around the event structure :

- Triggering an event on a picture created with LV Scripting

- Remove Frame Not Implemented

- How do I get the cases in an event structure

- Event Structure Selector Labels

We need to be able to add and edit event!

It would be nice to have bookmarks (possibly based within the project) so that you could quickly jump to certain areas of your code that has to be modified or reviewed frequently.  Obviously, things like state machines are self documenting, but it would still be great if you could quick jump to certain areas.  Being project based, you could also jump to any bookmark in a subvi.

Currently, digital displays are free floating and are not the same height as their corresponding plot in the legend.

Also, when an additional plot is added the displays no longer line up.

I would suggest including the digital displays inside the Plot Legend.

It could be a property of the graph so the user could choose to turn the option on or off

Note: The current method to have a similar effect is to lock the entire chart so that it cannot be edited (KB 4VQDROPI)

When creating complex UIs with a lot of controls on the front panel, it is difficult to find the control we're trying to associate an event with from the Edit Events dialog, as controls are not sorted alphabetically. It seems they are sorted in the order we create them. Sorting them alphabetically would improve our efficiency as it takes more and more time to find the control as rthe UI grows.

If you wanted to use a lot of functions from the same palette, you have to either keep going back through the context sensitive Replace/Create menu or manually search back over to the palette through the Functions palette to get to the functions you need.

Wouldn't it be nicer if we could pin that palette down directly from the context menu?

If this has already been implemented in LabVIEW 2012, give this idea a miss!