Where's is gone the "d'like to have it in Labview" thread?

[Tijarmin]

Sorry if I post in the wrong thread but I remember to have seen this thread somewhere.
Anyway this morning I take the time to post my wish here.

Does anybody as ever get the problem in Labview of selecting undesired object with the select tool? Suppose you want to select multiple controls on a front panel by surrounding them with the select tool: if ever a part of another control is in the selected area, it will also be included in the selction. Sometimes it is just fine because you wanted it to be selected but if you didn't then you have to unselect it. This is not a tragedy but I've seen a much better way to do this in Autocad.

The trick is if you select with the mouse from left to right, then only the completely selected elements will be included in the selection. To include all elements of an area, including the "partially" selected, then with the mouse you select from right to left. This works really fine and I think it could be very helpful in Labview. Any opinion on this ?

Martin

[Chaos]

You can modify the selection after the fact if needed.  Suppose you have some numeric controls followed by a graph and then more controls and you just want the controls selected.

First select all the controls by looping them.  This will get the graph also but thats ok.  Now while they are all selected hold down the shift key (I use the left shift but might work with both) and left click on the graph.  This will keep the previously selected controls but now the graph will be excluded (shift clicking is a toggle).  Using this you can also hold down shift and add more controls not in the previous ones looped.

Hope this helps!

[Tijarmin]

Thank you Chaos. This is the way I unselect the undesired items from my selections. However this is a two steps process and my suggestion would involve only one step. It would be particularly useful when selecting items placed over a decoration because most of the time, you don't want the decoration to be selected.

[Odd_Modem]

I will add one more want (or more properly, this is one rant.)

At least in Windows, if you right click on the file, and it is a .BAT, you get the option to open or edit. I would like that option (to edit) if the vi is set to "run when opened". I don't think there is any conflict here, they can just add that to the right click menu for every vi regardless of a setting.

Also, vi names that don't map to file names, as 'save to directory as development distribution". Please, clean up your act for vis such as open\read\close file.vi.

And too, I searched a code base for file name constants, in order to bring them out. vis start to report that the block diagram is password locked in a vi lib file. Oh please...

And then the report. If you install the report generator toolkit, it breaks the simple report in the full or PRO version. Oh Pa-lease, why does it have to do this???

[JeanPierre]

Here is a tool to open VIs in edit mode. Copy the attached VI in your <LabVIEW>\wizard folder at re/start LabVIEW. You will see in the File menu a new item "Open VI in Edit Mode...". The VI prompts for a VI path and opens it in edit mode. It even works on itself.

Enjoy.

[Philip_Courtois]

Hi Martin,

I must admit that I personally like the idea of different behavior when selecting objects in different directions. I can agree with you as much as I want, but the LabVIEW developers will only know if you take a minute to submit your idea as a product suggestion using the "feedback" link on www.ni.com/contact.

Good luck!

[Tijarmin]

Thank you Philip for the link.  I posted my suggestion.

Regards,

Martin