delete controls from block diagram in LV2009?

[GerdW]

Hi,

I'm missing that "delete/copy panel terminals from diagram" option of older LV versions (see attached pics)...

Where is it hiding or is gone for ever? I really miss that feature...

[Ben · Accepted solution]

I just read about that 10 minutes ago in the release notes. That setting along with some other have been "depreciated" as documented here.

copyDeleteFPCDOFromFPTerm = False

is what you need.

Ben

[GerdW]

Hi Ben,

thanks for the link. Actually I set this key to "True"

And this change isn't mentioned in the "LabView 2009 Features and Changes" document that opens from the LV start screen

Message Edited by GerdW on 08-21-2009 04:26 PM

[Ben]

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GerdW wrote:

Hi Ben,

thanks for the link. Actually I set this key to "True"

And this change isn't mentioned in the "LabView 2009 Features and Changes" document that opens from the LV start screen

Message Edited by GerdW on 08-21-2009 04:26 PM

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That is where I stumbeld across it.

About a third of the way dwon under the section labeled

Options Dialog Box Enhancements >>> 6th bullet down reads "Rarely used options no longer exist in the Options dialog box. Refer to the Knowledgebase for a list...."

Clicking on the "knowledgebase" link took me to the page I linked previously.

Ben

[GerdW]

Hi Ben,

ahh, hiding under "rarely used"...

Indeed, I used this option only once after installing new LabView versions: switch on immediatly

Just re-checked:

In LV7.1 and LV8.6 this option was set to true on default (it wasn't included in the LabView.ini by default), so I didn't even had to change that setting before. So NI has been hiding that feature and changed the default setting...

Message Edited by GerdW on 08-21-2009 04:42 PM

[Ben]

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GerdW wrote:

Hi Ben,

ahh, hiding under "rarely used"...

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Hi Gerd,

Do you remember that request a while back asking us to "send them our INI files"? I think we know what it was used for.

Ben

[GerdW]

Hi Ben,

I didn't send my INI file, but:

When I use the default setting and so the key isn't written to the INI file, then NI will remove that option from the dialog and change the default behaviour?

Or is everybody else switching off that option and I'm the only one using it?

[Darren]

The default behavior for this option for the past several releases has been to allow deletion of front panel terminals from the diagram (i.e., the option was checked).  If you didn't like this behavior (and thus wanted to prevent the deletion), you would uncheck the option in 8.6 and previous.  Since we removed the option from the Tools > Options settings in LabVIEW 2009, you would need to add the INI token (set to False) that Ben mentioned.  If you like the delete/copy behavior, you shouldn't need to do anything at all.

[GerdW]

Hi Darren,

"If you like the delete/copy behavior, you shouldn't need to do anything at all."

That was definetely not the case. I had to set the key with value True to enable deleting/copying from block diagram...

[Darren]

On a clean install of LabVIEW 2009, with no pre-existing LabVIEW INI file (i.e. the line was not in the INI file at all), I was able to delete front panel control terminals from the diagram without a problem.  Are you sure the line isn't duplicated in your INI file, with a value of False somewhere?