LabWindows/CVI Idea Exchange

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.

Hi,

I have two minor suggestions that might be useful when designing a UI:

- the option to show a vertical and horizontal guide (as e.g. in Powerpoint...)

- a possibility to zoom in (and back out, of course )

Thanks!

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... 

In a Tree Control you can change the size of cell font and, as a consequence, the size of the cell itself.

But the size of item images and plus/minus boxes is fixed: in this way you can have items with large fonts near small images and plus/minus boxes (see attched).

I think that this is quite ugly to see...

I think that images size can take some discrete values (16x16, 32x32, 48x48 and up to 128x128 for example), so that the larger one (smaller than the cell height) is automatically used.

I suggest a similar behaviour also for plus/minus boxes