Suggestion: Change All To Write (resp. Read) for local/global variables

[X.]

I am not into plug-ins yet, but if someone is short on ideas on how to show their skills, here is an idea.

When creating local variables from a bunch of selected controls, they will end up dropped as write-only variables.

Currently (LV 2015), one has to select each variable individually and use "Change to Read".

Having a right-click menu item allowing this on a group of selected local variables (and I suppose global variables for the heretics out there using them) would be nice.

For symmetry, the opposite operation should be offered if the selected variables are read-only.

And if there is a mixture of either, both options should be offered.

As a side note, the name of the group seems to be bogus. We are talking about right-click menus, or possible contextual menus, not really "shortcut" menus...

[AristosQueue (NI)]

X. wrote:

As a side note, the name of the group seems to be bogus. We are talking about right-click menus, or possible contextual menus, not really "shortcut" menus...

Shortcut menus are what those menus are called throughout the LV help and have been since at least LV 6.0. The group name is accurate.

[Darren]

I wrote your requested plug-in (just for locals) and posted it here. It was a pretty simple one, so it's a good learning illustration for writing your own plug-ins.

[X.]

I stand corrected about the terminology for shortcut menus.

However, what I was hinting at is that in many cases (this one being an example), the functionality doesn't exist in the app in the first place, so there is no possibility of "shortcut" (to a non-existing functionality). The destination has to be programmed first...