Darren's Weekly Nugget 12/04/2006

[Darren]

Here's a feature that I don't use very often, but I probably should.  If you press Ctrl-Shift-B in LabVIEW, the Class Browser is launched.  This is a great feature when you need to drop Property and Invoke Nodes, but you don't feel like searching the property/method list every time.  You can browse all the different properties and methods for a particular VI Server class (it also supports other object libraries like VISA, Datasocket, .NET, etc.), and you can also search the object library for classes by name.  One of the coolest features of the Class Browser is that you can "drag" a property/method name from the hierarchy tree of the class browser into a VI block diagram, which will put a property/invoke node with the proper property/method selected on your cursor to drop in the diagram.

The Class Browser is available in LabVIEW 8.0 and later.

-D

P.S. - Check out past nuggets here.

[altenbach]

Grrr... I don't get the class browser. ctrl+shift+B is the default key combination to open the password manager that ships with certain newer thinkpad computers (e.g. the T60p I just got). :(. Pressing these keys in LabVIEW, opens the password manager instead.

(of course I can open the class browser from the menu or reassign the pw manager key combo). 🙂

[johnsold]

It's Cmd-Shift-B on the Mac.

Lynn

[becktho]

Wow - that's quite a cool feature. Great nugget!!

[devchander]

This feature I did not know of!

Thank you

[Jochen]

This is definitely a feature that deserves more attention. Especially anyone who is using NI-DAQmx should have a look at this feature as it extremely simplifies the search for properties that are "hidden" deeply in the property-tree.

Thank you, Darren, for bringing this to public attention.

Jochen