Can I hide Modern-style objects from my Quick Drop menu?

[JKSH]

Hello,

I prefer the Silver style by far, and never choose Modern-style objects for new GUIs. Thus, I'd like my Quick Drop menu to not display Modern controls/indicators -- is this possible?

Thanks

[Thoric · Accepted solution]

Although you can't hide option from Quick-Drop, you can certainly make all your preferred Silver controls easier to get to by creating personalised shortcuts for each control. The shortcuts dominate over filter matches so these will always be the preferred selection.

[tst]

If you really care that much, there probably is something you can do. If memory serves, QD gets the list of items from a VI (look in <LabVIEW>\Resource\Dialog for the QD VIs). The VI itself is locked, but you could rename it and then create a version which has the original name and connector pane. Inside that version, you call the original VI, but before returning the list, you filter what you want out of it.

I didn't look to see if this would actually work and I wouldn't recommend doing this for a number of reasons, but if you really care, I expect it would work.

[JKSH]

I do care, but not enough to go hacking LabVIEW itself 🙂 I agree that it doesn't sound like a wise move, and I wouldn't recommend it either.

Thanks guys, for the insight into Quick Drop's behaviour and internals.