Darren's Weekly Nugget 03/22/2010

[Darren]

Have you seen the new Edit Events dialog in LabVIEW 2009?

Christina talked about it on her blog, but I figured I'd give it a mention here, too.  This is the first significant change for this UI since the Event Structure released in LabVIEW 6.1.  My favorite part about the reorganization is that I no longer have to scroll down to get to the Value Change event for controls.  That alone is worth the mention here.  🙂  But there are other benefits to the redesign, like the easier left-to-right UI flow, and the full name of the current event frame shown in the drop-down.

[altenbach]

Thanks Darren. Yes, much improved from the old "stamp sized" configuration dialogs. 😄

One thing that is still a bit hidden and not very obvious is the "lock front panel" setting. The placement of the checkbox and its text would almost hint that it is a setting "per event case", however, it is a setting "per event" and we need to click on all "Event specifiers" to ensure that all settings (all events for that particular event case) are set as required.

The description is clearly wrong: "... until this event case completes".

It should say "... until this event completes" instead. 😞

The two sentences are NOT equivalent!

Maybe each entry in the "Event Specifiers" listbox should include a glyph indicating the lock setting. (I'll probably write this up as an idea). 😉

[Darren]

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altenbach wrote: 

Maybe each entry in the "Event Specifiers" listbox should include a glyph indicating the lock setting. (I'll probably write this up as an idea). 😉

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If you do post it as an idea, make sure to reply with a link here.  I'll kudo it.

[Jarrod_S.]

I like the redesign, too!

My little suggestions with big impact to improve it further would be:

• Reverse the order of the controls in the Event Sources tree. Currently, when I add a new control, it gets added to the end of the list. Generally I program by adding a new control and then defining events for that control. New controls get added to the bottom of the Event Sources list. What this means is that I have to keep scrolling to the bottom of a larger and larger list to find the control I want. I say it should be at the top of the list.
• Collapse Clusters by default in the Event Sources list. These are usually things like Error Clusters that I don't want to define events for. They visually clutter the list.
• SEARCH! Add a search box at the top to quickly navigate to the control I want.

Sorry in advance. I can't remember if these ideas are mentioned in the Ideas Exchange forum.

Message Edited by Jarrod S. on 03-22-2010 02:02 PM

[altenbach]

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Darren wrote: 
If you do post it as an idea, make sure to reply with a link here.  I'll kudo it.

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Link to Idea. 😄

[F._Schubert]

Jarrod, I like your suggestions (most important the collapse cluster). Please do the same as Cristian and go for the IE and post the link here.

Felix 

[tst]

Also, here's an idea for both a sort feature and a search feature.

[TCPlomp]

A (short)list of event related ideas:

• Here's an idea requesting the addition of an 'Add event case' button
• Another idea on adding a 'file open' event, so you can handle custom file types better 
• Adding 'mouse scroll' events

Ton