Darren's Weekly Nugget 09/18/2006

[zav]

Hello

Has anybody already tried "MRUFolders=TRUE" in LabVIEW 8.5?
It worked for me in 8.2, but not in 8.5 on my PC

[Ben]

And yet another Golden Nugget from Darren!

Thank you!

Ben

[Jarrod_S.]

Just a warning to everyone:

I had this setting set and really liked it. But for some unknown reason about six months ago it stopped updating the list of recent folders. So now I'm stuck with a crappy (excuse the language) stale selection of old folders that I no longer use at all. I don't even have a Desktop or Recent Items selection anymore. Even worse, this old selection of folders is used for ALL file open dialogs, not just inside LabVIEW.

I've turned the ini token on and off to no avail. I can't seem to reset this option.

I'm not sure what happened. I hadn't switched versions of LabVIEW or anything, and upgrading to LabVIEW 8.5 didn't have any affect with the same ini token. I'm suspecting it might have been a Windows update that broke this, but that might just be me being paranoid.

Hope this doesn't happen to you...

P.S. Does anyone know if there's a registry key or something that could help me reset my folder list for this dialog?

[Ben]

Its looks like falling behind in my Nugget reading has served me well.

Sorry, I can't help Jarrod.

Ben

[tst]

As said earlier, I use TweakUI, which simply creates a list of 5 constant locations.
I believe you can also do it manually by editing the

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\comdlg32\Placesbar]

key in the registry. It should have some items labeled place0 through 4, but I would suggest simply using TweakUI.

[Jarrod_S.]

Thank you thank you thank you. Five stars! Oddly enough I had gotten so good at memorizing where each of these old stale locations was, and how to navigate to my desired location using them. What a waste!

[Prithivi]

Hi Friends,

I set "MRUFolders=TRUE" in ini file in the LabVIEW 8.5 verion. It is not working.

It worked for me in 8.2, but not in 8.5 on my PC . Any one know why it is? It won't work in 8.5 version?

[tst]

You might wish to actually read the thread. As others have mentioned, this doesn't seem to work anymore. You can use TweakUI instead.

[TCPlomp]

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@tst wrote:
You might wish to actually read the thread. As others have mentioned, this doesn't seem to work anymore. You can use TweakUI instead.

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Or the following code.
If place the accompanying llb inside your LabVIEW\Wizard folder, you will get a menu option 'Places Bar' in the 'File' menu.
This will launch a dialog with the current (or default) Places bar items:

Here you can change the 5 items of the places bar, those values will be written to the MS Windows registry and applied to all open dialog.

Have fun, please try out, and give feedback.

Ton

Message Edited by TonP on 06-03-2008 09:24 PM

[Darren]

Hey everybody,

Sorry I didn't notice this earlier.  I have no idea why MRUFolders stopped working, but I see the same behavior on my machine.  I've filed CAR# 113669 so we can investigate the issue.  Thanks for bringing it to my attention!

-D