Presentation - Augmenting Right-Click Menus in LabVIEW

[AristosQueue (NI)]

All the details of the right-click plugins feature in LabVIEW, that allows you to extend the right-click menus in the LabVIEW editor purely with LabVIEW code. 

The slides were last refreshed in April 2021. Demo files (saved in LabVIEW 2020) are attached below.

You can watch a recording of the presentation here.

[MitulBhavsar]

Is there any way to modify existing item tags?

For Example, I want to disable the 'Description & Tip' option in Development Environment. But when I change its property to disable it throws an error 1164 which represents 'Cannot modify an application menu item'

[wiebe@CARYA]

I think the key word here is "application".

You can change menu info (tag it, disable it, shortcuts), and in fact changing the info after creating the item is the only way to do it.

However, you can't do that for application menu items.

[wiebe@CARYA]

You should be able to delete the item and replace it with your own menu item.

But you'd also need to handle the selection of the item, because LabVIEW won't.

[MitulBhavsar]

Okay.

Thanks for the quick feedback.

[wiebe@CARYA]

Sure. Welcome to the forum!