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RobertoBozzolo

Adding options to context menu on menu items in the UIR editor

Status: Duplicate Submitted by Proven Zealot on 03-07-2012 02:32 AM 1 Comment

Presently there is a context menu for menu elements to generate / jump to a menu item callback. These items are not present in top level menus that have a callback function installed (those with the exclamation mark appended), where only 'Edit' item is present. It would be handy to have these options added to those items too.

 

See this image:

ContextMenuOnMenus.PNG

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m-a

Check for duplicate keyboard accelerators in controls

Status: Under Consideration Submitted by Member on 01-17-2012 08:55 AM 1 Comment

I find it desirable to have the UI engine run, in debug mode and only optionally in release mode, a duplicate check on keyboard accelerators on controls (like labels or command buttons, as in __Quit being rendered as Quit and enabling the user to press [Alt]+[Q]). All too often, on bigger panels, when adding a feature, I find that a shortcut/accelerator is already assigned.

 

Note that the UI editor per se isn't sufficient while controls can be added programmatically.

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Wolfgang

More tags

Status: New Submitted by Trusted Enthusiast on 07-18-2011 07:43 AM 2 Comment

Hi,

 

In the CVI IDE I am using tags to mark functions as 'ready'. It would be nice if different tags would be available allowing to simultaneously flag several characteristics, such as 'checked', 'verified', 'tested'... I would imagine differently colored flags, possibly similar to the colored flags available in Outlook.

 

In larger projects this might be a useful feature to add some quick 'documentation' of the development status, and using F2 (goto next tag) to go to the next function that is not finished yet, has not been tested, etc.

 

Thanks.

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Wolfgang

EVENT_TABL​E_ROW_COL_​LABEL_RIGHT_CLIC​K

Status: New Submitted by Trusted Enthusiast on 07-13-2011 11:58 AM Comment

Hello,

 

If one is interested in having a popup menu that shows up only for row or column headers it would be convenient to have the analogon to the event EVENT_TABL​E_ROW_COL_​LABEL_CLIC​K (which actually is a EVENT_TABL​E_ROW_COL_​LABEL_LEFT_CLIC​K event...), i.e. I am suggesting an event that is fired when a right click is received on a table column (or row) label.

 

It should be added that right now this is already possible with 11 additional lines of code, see the example colview, so I do not consider this idea as urgent Smiley Wink, but still...

 

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Shawn_S.

Excel code evaluation within CVI input

Status: Declined Submitted by on 07-01-2011 02:08 PM 1 Comment

I had a customer associated with SR# 7325346 ask how to change the maximum value for his Y axis in CVI.  I rightfully directed him to the SetAxisScalingMode function.  The customer told me that they were using an equation to determine the Max parameter for their Y axis [YMax=2*x + sqrt(x) + log(x)] or something to that effect.  He also said that the equation could change to something else, and he would like to change the equation on the fly within CVI. 

 

Basically, he's asking for functionality that would enable a text box to act similar to an Excel cell, which could evaluate simple equations such as add(val1,val2) or sqrt(val3).  We should build a tool that makes this possible.

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JPS_CSE

Editor upgrade

Status: Under Consideration Submitted by Member on 05-27-2011 07:35 AM 1 Comment

I'd like to see a toolbar button to change letter case of selected text in the editor.

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Miha_Vitorovic

Import VS project

Status: New Submitted by Member on 04-04-2011 04:13 AM Comment

Make a wizard or something to import a Visual Studio project and create a matching CVI one. I know mapping is not one to one, but at least pull in the same source files (sometimes the project does not include all the files in a folder), the preprocessor defines and any other settings that can map into CVI ones.

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Wolfgang

make Window menu modal

Status: New Submitted by Trusted Enthusiast on 02-21-2011 03:35 AM 1 Comment

In the CVI IDE the Window menu provides a list of View options, e.g. the Find Results.

 

While it's possible to display a window via selection of the corresponding menu item, it's not possible to deselect an item and hide/remove this window via the menu.

 

Moreover, even if the Find Results window is not selected, it does show up every time I use CTRL+F and hence does not honor my wish to not have it displayed.

 

Because every additional window requires some space I would prefer the possibility to decide myself if I want to have a Find Results window displayed or not.

 

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Peter_Prinzen

syntax highlighting for xml

Status: New Submitted by Member on 02-09-2011 02:22 AM Comment

Sometimes I need to work with xml-files related to the source code. It's nice to open them in CVI IDE, with right mouse click -> go to definition and so on, but will be much more fun, if the file will be displayed with correct syntax highlighting.

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Wolfgang

add 'save to disk' symbol to the status line of the UIR editor

Status: Completed Submitted by Trusted Enthusiast on 01-26-2011 09:46 AM 4 Comment

this is yet another spectacular suggestion Smiley Wink

 

In the CVI editor, the status line gives some useful information, e.g. that the file has been modified and needs to be saved; this is indicated by floppy disk symbol.

 

I miss this symbol in the status line of the UIR editor and would like to have it there, too.

 

Thats's it Smiley Happy

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ngay528

List of Current Control Objects and Panels by name from uir file shown while editing c file

Status: New Submitted by Member on 12-08-2010 01:27 PM Comment

As mentioned in title, would be nice to have a list of current panels and control in the uir file.  If not, then optimizing the Ctrl + Space Auto completion results.  Similar to new list in CVI 2010 in uir file.

 

Currently I would have to do one of the following:

 

1: go to my uir file to get the name of the object if I haven't compiled it yet along with the panel name.

2: Check my header file it it has been compiled

3: Ctrl + Space auto-completion if I have typed it before

 

So for newly created objects, this can be cumbersome to make sure you know the [PANEL NAME]_[Control Name]

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Wolfgang

improved GetGraphCoordsFromPoint

Status: New Submitted by Trusted Enthusiast on 11-15-2010 09:10 AM Comment

I'd like to suggest an enhanced version of the command GetGraphCoordsFromPoint.

 

Right now, the return status of this function indicates if the mouse cursor is within the plot area of the corresponding graph.

 

I'd like to have the possibility determining if the mouse cursor is above the plot area, i.e. within the plot area (pixelwise) and directly on top the plot area. 

The difference is in cases where the plot area is covered by other controls or menus: In this case (see the thread with example program here) the mouse may be well within the area, but not over the graph because the graph is covered (so the mouse cursor is over some other element)...

 

The motivation for this feature is the frequent wish to change the appearance of the mouse cursor: if it is located over the plot area, a cross hair cursor style might be more useful to indiciate e.g. mouse cursor coordinates, while if the mouse cursor is located above some other control element the cross hair cursor is disturbing and the default style is much more convenient.

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beattidp

Allow Disable of Blinking Cursor in CVI Editor

Status: Completed Submitted by Member on 11-04-2010 03:35 AM 5 Comment

LabWindows/CVI is forcing a blinking cursor in the text editor window;
this I think is rather unfair; unlike all my other applications, it ignores
the Windows XP keyboard settings for cursor blink rate (=no blink).
It should never have blinked in the first place, and I can't locate any
option to disable this blink.

There should be an option to disable the blinking cursor
in the LabWindows/CVI source file editor; for many people,
blinking cursors can be disruptive to our concentration.

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vix

NetworkVariablePopup: group items into "My Computer" and "My Network Places"

Status: New Submitted by Active Participant on 10-26-2010 02:11 AM Comment

Using NetworkVariablePopup( ) I noticed that the localhost is listed twice (one as "localhost" and one with its name), and this generates some confusion.

Looking at the Distributed System Manager Window and DS_SelectURL( ) popup, for example, I understood the reason: in all these windows there are

  • the local PC (localhost)
  • all the network PCs (and of course, localhost is one of them)

The fact is that in DSM Windows they're grouped into "My Systems" and "Network Items" (see DSM2009.jpg) and in DS_SelectURL( ) popup they're grouped into "My Computer" and "My Network Places".

In NetworkVariablePopup( ) the PCs are not grouped (see NetVarPopup.jpg).

 

I suggest that also in the "Browse Network Variables" window the PCs should be grouped into "My Computer" and "My Network Places" or "My Systems" and "Network Items" (see suggested.jpg) because this little modification highly improves the usability.

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Wolfgang

set height of tab panel in UI editor

Status: Under Consideration Submitted by Trusted Enthusiast on 10-22-2010 01:21 AM 3 Comment

When designing a tab page in the UI editor usually the total height and width needed to nicely place all the controls can be calculated using the heights of the individual controls plus some distance in between the controls.

 

One may end up with a number for the height of the panel (excluding the top positioned tab) of say 160 pixels. Unfortunately, in the UI editor it is not possible to set this value. All that is possible is setting the height of the complete panel tab including the tab height (to say 181). It would be nicer having the possibility to either set the height of the panel including the tab (and the usable panel height will adapt) or to set the height of the usable panel height and the total height of the panel tab will adapt accordingly. Then moving the tab from the top to the left the usable panel height would remain constant.

 

A workaround has been given by Roberto here so this suggestion is not the most urgent wish but still would increase user friendlyness of the UI editor... 

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