Darren's Weekly Nugget 03/06/2006

[Bob_Y.]

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@Ben wrote:

"icon designer" ?

Wow! Now there is a job for you. Just draw pictures and the code does not even have to run.

Ben

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Icon design seems to be one of the hardest parts of VI development to me.  I would hate to be stuck doing only the hard part .

[daveTW]

Hey Darren,
just take it for another nugget, because this cool feature needs a better pressentation than the tenth reply to reply.
Dave

[Darren]

As you wish, Dave...thanks to you, today's nugget is the image dragging to icon feature.

-D

[Ray.R]

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@Darren wrote:

Connector Pane -  Well, in LabVIEW 8.0, when you create a new VI, it defaults to have the familiar 4x2x2x4 connector pane whenever you show the connector.

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Sweet!..

I always changed  them to this manually.  I like the same format (whenever possible) for all sub-vi's.  It helps to keep wires cleaner (no kinks).

LV8 has this automatic?  Nice.. I like it!

Ray

[altenbach]

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Darren wrote:

Where [number] is the numeric identifier of the connector pane you wish to use.  How do you find out this number, you ask?  Simple...run the VI I've attached to this post (saved in 8.0 format).  So, as an example, if you wanted all new VIs to have the 5x3x3x5 pattern instead of 4x2x2x4, you would put defaultConPane=4833 in your LabVIEW INI file.

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Darren, sorry for reviving this ancient post, but whatever we have here seems incomplete. What do I do if I want one of the rotated connector panes as default? Your example also needs a control for a -90, 90, or 180degree rotation, depending on the amount of symmetry.