Set label to appear to the right of control/indicator in a block diagram

[Peter Parker]

Hello,

I'm just wondering if there is anyway to set the preference in how label of a control/indicator to appear to the right of the control in a block diagram.  I'm doing a lot of routine copying and pasting of controls and indicators, and the labels always appear at the top of the controls/indicators.  Thanks for the tip.

Peter

[falkpl]

you can make your own control by using the advanced>>customize option, move the default location of the lable (or many other characteristics of the control) save this control and add it to to your control toolkit.  Labview is (almost) infinitely extensible and building up your own customized control library can save much time in the longrun.

Paul

[Peter Parker]

Hi Paul,

Thanks for the reply.  Can we modify the preference for standard controls such as Boolean LED or numeric indicator, etc, basically the standard controls/indicators in the pallette? 

Peter.

[falkpl]

you should be able to replace any of the standard controls with a new version but I would suggest agumenting your toolkit with your own controls.  I would start your own tools palette where you can save your coustom controls in.  If you save them in the user.lib they should not be wiped out when upgrading labview. 

Paul

[Peter Parker]

Thank you for the pointer, Paul.  Have a good day.

Peter

[altenbach]

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Peter Parker wrote:

I'm just wondering if there is anyway to set the preference in how label of a control/indicator to appear to the right of the control in a block diagram.  I'm doing a lot of routine copying and pasting of controls and indicators, and the labels always appear at the top of the controls/indicators.  Thanks for the tip.

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If you copy&paste a control, the label will jump back to the default location for the pasted control.

There is a better way! It makes copying a control faster and retains the label location:

1. select the control you want to copy
2. hold down the [ctrl] key and drag the terminal to a new place.
3. You will have a copy of the original control at the new location and the label position is the same.

🙂

(Darren would probably call that a Nugget© :D)

[Peter Parker]

Hello,

Thanks for the reply.  That's exactly how I do copy and paste by holding ctrl key and then drag the controls in the front panel to a new location.  The label stays for the copied control in the front panel, but not so for the block diagram.

Peter

[altenbach]

Yes, but if you ctrl-drag the terminal on the BD instead of the control on the FP, both labels (FP control and BD terminal) stay in the right place. 😮

I consider it a minor bug that the label position of a copied control swaps position. Maybe you could make a product suggestion to to change this behavor.