LabVIEW 8.2 style Palettes in LabVIEW 8.5?

[MRedRaider]

I am about to upgrade to LabVIEW 8.5 BUT I hate the palette changes. Anyone know how to get the 8.2.1 style palettes on 8.5? What about at least disabling the hidden menu system where you have to click the two down arrows to see the full palette?

Thanks in advance!

[Darren]

My 8.5 palettes look exactly like my 8.2 palettes.  Here's what I did with a fresh 8.5 install:

1. Go to Tools > Options > Controls/Functions Palettes and change Format to "Category (Standard)" and click OK.
2. Go to the front panel.  Bring up a palette and pin it down with the thumbtack.  Click "View" and choose "Change Visible Categories".  Choose "Select All" and Click OK.  Close the pinned palette.
3. Repeat step 2 on the block diagram.

That should make your 8.5 palettes look just like the 8.2 palettes. 

-D

[MRedRaider]

@Darren: Your a gentleman and a scholar, thank you sir.

[JeffBoettcher]

I also give Darren 5 stars.  🙂

Just an FYI, if you copy your INI file over from 8.2, you should get all the palette settings you had in 8.2, as that's where they're stored.  Granted, you might not want 8.5 to inherit various other settings you had in 8.2.  As such, here are the lines you can remove from your INI file (if they exist) to get back into the state I think you want:

• PaletteHiddenControlCategories*
• PaletteHiddenFunctionlCategories*
• menu.#*
• menuLoc.#*
• menuFormat.#*
• PaletteOpenCategories.#*

Basically I just did a diff on a fresh INI from both before and after manually changing the settings Darren mentioned.  Enjoy!