Right Clicking Menu on Front Panel is Default Signal Express in 8.5

[ShotSimon]

My Labview 8.5 menus when right clicking default to Signal Express and it is driving me crazy.  How do a turn this feature off so that by default I can goto Modern Style Labview Controls for example.

This is even more annoying than have to push the green button at the top of my tools pallet to turn on the tabbing feature, or better yet turning off large icons by default on every install!

[JamesR]

Hi Simon,

Bring up your controls palette, and then pin it down by clicking on its upper left-hand corner.  Then right-click on the category that you want to come up by default.  Select "Move to Top (Expand by Default)".  I think that should take care of it!

[ShotSimon]

Very nice, Thankyou.

I wanted to post your other response too, for turning off automatic tool selection permanently.

Turn off automatic tool selection permanently.

Open the options window, by going to Tools>>Options.. Select the

Environment category and uncheck the Lock Automatic Tool Selection

option. With this unchecked LabVIEW will not automatically turn on

automatic tool selection at startup.

[Henrik_Volkers]

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@JamesR wrote:

Hi Simon,

Bring up your controls palette, and then pin it down by clicking on its upper left-hand corner.  Then right-click on the category that you want to come up by default.  Select "Move to Top (Expand by Default)".  I think that should take care of it!

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one small addition: you also have to add your new top category to the visible categories 😉  
and when you want to choose the modern category to be top AND expanded  you have to move it down first, since it is already on top of the list, so the option to make it 'Top(Expand by default)' is grayed out ....