How to disable the alphabetical order in lists in 8.5

[didje]

I have just installed LabView 8.5.

I found that the lists of controls and globals are now ordered alphabetically in drop down boxes.

I was using the tabing order to regroup items corresponding to the same functions.
Is there an option to changed the order back to what it was before?

Cheers

Etienne

[AdamB]

Hi there,

What lists are you talking of?

Do you have any screen shots (previous and current?)

Thanks

AdamB

[Ben]

"

What lists are you talking of?

"

I can only guess myself.

I beleive the "Link to ..." available for property nodes was "enhanced" in LV 8.5 such that the objects are now sorted alphabeticly. I had heard people ask for this change to support work with FP with large object counts.

How to shut it down?

I can't say.

Is this controlable via an "Ini" token?

Ben

[didje]

I'm talking about the drop down list to change the control to which a local variable is linked.
in this the picture the control z was created first then m then a. So the tabbing order is z m a. wgich is the order in which I would like the controls to appear in the drop down list

In the previous version of Labview the item are sorted by tabbing order not alphabetical order

[AdamB]

Hi there,

This was an intended feature for the Local and Global variables.  We decided to implement this feature as an improvement to the usability of Local and Global variables in LabVIEW and I'm afraid that this is not a customizable feature.

You'll actually find that it is now possible to use the keyboard keys to skip to the appropriate local variable name in the list and if you have a very large list you can also use page up and page down.

However if you are utilizing the Local and Global variables this much you may want to reconsider your application architecture.  Local and Global variables are the main reasons for race conditions and problematic code.  I would consider other methods to pass data from one section of code to another.  For example, Functional Global variables.

Thanks

AdamB