LabVIEW
edit control palette default
Solved!
I've tried searching the forums (unsuccessfully), maybe I'm not searching using the right keywords.
How can I modify my control palette permanently?
I would like to do this for the front panel as well as block diagram.
Currently, if I bring up the palette, this is what pops up
I would like the palette to show the progamming window by default,
as much as I love the express palette 
Ben wrote:I never change them myself...
Ben
I understand, you're an express VI kind of guy. No need to explain
Dennis Knutson wrote:You don't change them there but the screen does describe how to change the visible categories by clicking on the View button of the pinned palette.
Yeh, thats how I ended up changing it, but I gave Ben the solution because he got me most of the way there
Once the palette is open, just pin it down and press View >> Change Visible Catagories
Cory K wrote:
Ben wrote:I never change them myself...
Ben
I understand, you're an express VI kind of guy. No need to explain
But I will anyway.
I have tried to work with the tools that are most redily availble to me most of my career. Years ago I chastised for shunning "VI" for editing files on UNIX systems, perfering "edlin" since is was stnadrad and always available.
Today I visit customers that have LV configured to their liking. re-aranging the pallette options can confuse them and that I try to avoid. So I use the standard palette views and just wok with what NI decides is right for that verwsion of LV.
Example:
Friday before last I was invited to visit a customer that had decided to hire a competitor instead of us years ago. THe competitor went out of buisness and a storm took out the PC running the app. So I find myself trying to naviagate the attribute nodes (hint) and multiple hazardous race conditions and found myself unable to pop-up on a wire to add a break point where I thought the hardware was failing. I simply could not get a break point to set and gave up.
While driving home I remebered, there is BreakPoint tool for inserting breakpoints!
It had been so long since working with LV 5.1 that even something as simple as dropping a breakpoint baffled me.
So with 34 behind me and about 7 years in front, I am "going to dance with the one who brung me". (RR).
Ben
Ben wrote:
Years ago I chastised for shunning "VI" for editing files on UNIX systems, perfering "edlin" since is was stnadrad and always available.
You prefered "edlin" over "vi"??? And I thought I was weird. 
tbob wrote:
Ben wrote:
Years ago I chastised for shunning "VI" for editing files on UNIX systems, perfering "edlin" since is was stnadrad and always available.
You prefered "edlin" over "vi"??? And I thought I was weird.
Thank you Tbob!
Coming from you, that is a compliment (I think).
Ben
PS Try running VI using a hard-copy console. Just think of the trees that I saved.
