LabWindows/CVI Idea Exchange

Hello,

The current features of the UI editor with respect to editing tooltips are VERY limited. I am not complaining because one has to start somewhere

Instead I am adding yet another suggestion on this subject

Please provide the possibility to enter tab stops, see my comment here

Because this is such a modest request, please also consider this one

THANK YOU!

Starting from CVI2010, the User Interface Browser and the Attribute Browser are both located on the right of the UIR editor in the Workspace window.

I'd like to be able to hide these windows when required: when working on small screens like when you use a laptop these windows occupy a lot of space even if you reduce their size at the minimum.

In addition, the ability to choose which window to display on the bottom left could be a good option: up to version 2009 the bottom left side of the workspace window switched between the library tree (source editor) and the attribute browser (UIR editor).

Ideally, while in the UIR editor I would like to be able to:

• Choose whether to show some window on the right side or not
• In case nothing is shown on the right, choose whether to have the attribute browser, the library tree or the user interface browser in the bottom left angle

Hello,

this is a minor issue but still it can be very inconvenient... Very inconvenient because it almost always happens to me that if editing a menu bar I inadvertently mess it up. This is because if one is inserting a new item or child item, after pressing the 'Insert Item' or 'Insert Child Item' button the active control is set to 'Constant name', see below.

But I am never editing the 'Constant name' but always the 'Item name' (and callback function, modifier key...). Hence I almost always start typing the item name until I realize that I was editing the wrong field.

So my suggestion is to consider changing the active control after one of the insert buttons has been pressed to 'Item name'.

The active configuration (Debug, Release, custom ones, ...) is shown in the bottom-right corner of the status bar (see attached config01.jpg).

I think that it would be better if this would be a menu ring that can be used to change the active configuration, without having to select Build >> Configuration >> xxxx (see config02.jpg)

Hi,

Almost all function keys found on my keyboard have a corresponding keycode that can be used e.g. in FakeKeystroke () - except 'Print Screen'. It's not obvious why this one has been left out, it would be convenient to also have support for this key, e.g. for generating a screenshot or a printout.

Thanks.

Personally I don't like the "unsorted" look of the libs as it is now. I always create a libs branch and put them there. This way the branch can be collapsed and saves space I don't have to scroll when having multiple projects in one workspace. Libs are files I don't edit that often so I don't have to see them all the time.

For every other file type CVI "knows" at the Add Files to Project sub menu, there is automatically a branch created - but not for libs.

When using the UI functions, a neat feature is the ability to pull up a dialog of valid control IDs when specifying the control:

clicking the elipses displays this dialog showing all valid control IDs:

If you are using the function panel however, you cannot access this dialog and you are on your own for figuring out the correct control ID:

I think we should add this functionality in the function panel for any function that has a control ID parameter.