Hello dear LabVIEW community. Does anyone know if there is a way to hook LabVIEW Options Window (Tools menu bar) in order to add a custom configuration panel? For example when you install FPGA and Mathscript they are new menus you can access (cf. screenshot). I don't know if this can be achieved through LabVIEW project providers but I can't find any information about this subject. Thank you in advance to anyone who can provide help or informations.

Unfortunately, shipping LabVIEW does not provide a way to plug in to the Tools > Options dialog. All of the pages (even the FPGA and MathScript ones) are hard-coded in the LabVIEW C code. However, I have a workaround for you, if you don't mind overwriting a shipping VI in your LabVIEW folder. Follow these steps: 1. Backup the following VI: [LabVIEW 20xx]\resource\dialog\PreferencesDialog\PreferenceDialog.vi 2. Replace that VI with the one attached to this post (LabVIEW 2014 or later). 3. Create the following folder: [LabVIEW 20xx]\resource\dialog\PreferencesDialog\PreferencePages\User 4. Create a new VI from the following template: [LabVIEW 20xx]\resource\dialog\PreferencesDialog\PreferencePages\pageTemplate.vit 5. Save the new VI from step (4) into the User folder you created in step (3), making sure to save the VI with a prefPage_ prefix. 6. Mass compile the PreferencesDialog folder. Congratulations, you now have your own page in Tools > Options. A couple of things to keep in mind: a. Change the window title of your prefPage VI, and that's what will appear in the page list in Tools > Options. b. Don't change the connector pane of your prefPage VI. c. Don't do anything with any of the 'TagSet' references in your prefPage VI. These are used by the C code, which you're bypassing. This includes removing the subVI call in the <Close Event> of the event structure. d. Since you aren't using the 'TagSet' stuff at all, you'll need to implement your own handling of reading/writing configuration. Assuming your page uses the LabVIEW INI file to store configurations, you can do this with the VIs here: [LabVIEW 20xx]\resource\dialog\lvconfig.llb. e. If you add multiple pages, they will be added to the end of the Tools > Options list in alphabetical order based on prefPage VI file name. Alrighty, have fun. Hopefully it's obvious that everything above is definitely *not* supported by NI through official channels. I did, however, file Bug 1004153 to see about adding these hooks to a future LabVIEW release.

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Add a preference page to LabVIEW options dialog

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Thank you Darren !

Nicolas Bats
LabVIEW, RT, FPGA - CLA, CLED, CTD

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