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mmeinders

Tooltips for menu bars

Status: New Submitted by Member on 09-19-2013 01:56 PM Comment

The place where tooltips are needed most is on menu bars, since the text you can put there is fairly limited and right clicks can not be used to provide help as can be done with buttons. I would love to see this added to CVI soon.

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Wolfgang

Improve UI editor for editing tooltip strings

Status: New Submitted by Trusted Enthusiast on 08-01-2013 07:11 AM Comment

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 Smiley Wink

Instead I am adding yet another suggestion on this subject Smiley Happy

 

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

 

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

 

THANK YOU!

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Wolfgang

EVENT_MOUSE_OVER_CONTROL and EVENT_MOUSE_ABANDONED_CONTROL

Status: New Submitted by Trusted Enthusiast on 09-14-2011 05:37 AM Comment

Hi,

 

sometimes it is useful to know if the mouse cursor is above a certain control or not, e.g. a graph control where one might want to toggle the visibility of display coordinates, etc.

 

Right now, this can be accomplished by installing a timer that periodically calls GetRelativeMouseState() to get the current mouse coordinates which can then be compared to the control coordinates.

To me, this seems to be quite some overhead to have a timer busy all the time checking for various, possibly very many, control coordinates. It appears simpler to have two more events, similar to EVENT_GOT_FOCUS and EVENT_LOST_FOCUS, but triggered on mouse position alone.

 

The suggestion is also different from EVENT_MOUSE_POINTER_MOVE.

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Kracken

Import/Export Custom Environment and Color Settings

Status: Already Implemented Submitted by on 08-10-2011 11:18 AM 4 Comment

It would be nice to be able to import and export custom environment and color settings.  This would allow users to transfer settings to another computer, and it would also allow the community to create color schemes that could be shared.  Creating a good color scheme from scratch is time consuming, so it would be nice for both the creater and the user to be able to share the work that is done.

 

CustomColors.PNG

 

Regards,

 

Brandon V.

 

 

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tstanley

Multiple splitting of opened source/header files in the IDE

Status: New Submitted by Active Participant on 06-02-2011 12:01 PM 1 Comment

Currently, you can get two views of the same source/header file in the IDE by pulling down a second view from the top of the window.  It would be handy on occasion to be able to pull down more than two views in order to see more than two parts of the file.  Hopefully the attached mock-up screenshot will better show what I'm asking for.

 

Thanks.

multiplesplitmockup.PNG 

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gdargaud

Independant manal/auto limits for min and max on axis

Status: New Submitted by Active Participant on 05-13-2011 07:30 AM Comment

Here's my suggestion:

Change

SetAxisScalingMode(panel, control,  Axis, scaling, Min, Max)

to

SetAxisScalingMode(panel, control,  Axis, scalingMin, Min, ScalingMax, Max)

so that the lower limit of an axis can be VAL_MANUAL (for instance at 0) while the upper limit can be VAL_AUTOSCALE

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RobertoBozzolo

Ability to hide the User Interface and Attribute browser boxes

Status: New Submitted by Proven Zealot on 03-27-2013 05:16 AM 3 Comment

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
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tstanley

Implement DPI scaling similar to 'Scale Contents on Resize'

Status: New Submitted by Active Participant on 02-06-2015 08:43 AM Comment

Hi,

 

Currently, when a CVI application is deployed on a PC with a DPI setting different than the development machine, the application will generally not look like how the programmer intended as the fonts get resized while the other UI elements do not, leading to overlapping text, awkwardly resized controls, etc.  One way that DPI scaling could be implemented in CVI would be to use the same functionality as the 'Scale Contents on Resize' option for panels, where internally CVI could resize the panel and use this scaling to rescale all the UI elements (including fonts) on the panel to the appropiate size per the Windows DPI setting.  This would make the panel look a lot closer to what the programmer intended and would generally make most applications usable with different DPI settings without any additional work from the programmer.  Per my other suggestion, I would request that the programmer has the capability of disabling this functionality so they can handle DPI scaling themselves should they wish to do so.

 

Thanks.

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Wolfgang

separators in ring control

Status: Completed Submitted by Trusted Enthusiast on 11-03-2010 05:31 AM 12 Comment

One nice feature of menu bars is their capability of grouping different items using a separator.

 

Having ring controls with many text entries it would be nice from a user perspective if these many entries also could be grouped using one or more separators.

 

What would be also convenient is the ability to dim or hide a specified entry; right now it is possible to rebuild the ring programmatically with one or several entries less (or more), but this is some overhead that could be minimized by simply hiding or showing an indexed entry.

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RobertoBozzolo

Improvement needed on "Attach controls" function for splitter controls

Status: New Submitted by Proven Zealot on 05-22-2014 05:24 AM Comment

Attaching controls to a splitter in the UIR editor can be a pain if the panel has several controls on it. I'll make an example using CVI example SendMail: trying to add a vertical splitter and attach all controls to it in order to rearrange the panel when the user resizes it. This is the original panel, you can see the vertical splitter in the upper right corner:

 

SendMail.png

 

 

First of all, if several controls are selected, they overlap in the right panel of the editor in a way different from the original panel. Here you can see that the decoration indicated by the arrow overlaps two string controls that I'm not able to operate on to select desired  attachment mode. This means that I need to proceed to attach controls in steps, hoping new controls added are not overlapped by previous ones. Alternatively I can move controls in the right panel to encover hidden ones, but this ingenerates confusion as controls are no more in the original position besides being a waste of time.

SendMail_Overlap.png

 

Second item: if selected controls are on the "wrong" side of the panel, they are all grouped (and possibly overlapped) on the closest boundary of the right window. See this example: Send and Quit buttons are only partially visible on the lower left corner of the right window and additionally they are overlapped (in the small box how they appear if I select one of them and move it upwards):

SendMail_Arrangment.png

 

 

I suggest that this function is improved with these additions:

 

  • Honour the z-plane order of the original panel when controls are selected for attachment and moved to the right side
  • Maintain original controls position when moved to the right panel. Consequently:
  • Have both scrollbars enabled in Controls on the Splitter window in order to navigate to the controls; at present only one of them is enabled, whether vertical or horizontal depending on the type of splitter
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Anjelica-W

Include Zoom Functionality for Digital Graph

Status: New Submitted by on 01-31-2014 03:33 PM Comment

The regular graph for analog data has the capability to zoom. However, in an application where you may have a large amount of digital data, the digital graph has no native zoom features. Current workaround could be to have an input for the min and max and use the SetAxisScalingMode function to change how much of the data you view. However, it would be helpful to have the same zoom features as the regular graph.

 

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CVI-User

Add a branch for linker libs in the Project Tree

Status: Completed Submitted by Member on 08-10-2011 04:52 AM 3 Comment

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.

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Al.B

Control ID parameter in UI functions (SetCtrlVal, etc) should have access to the select constant dialog in the function panel

Status: New Submitted by on 04-19-2011 01:48 PM 4 Comment

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

 

1.png

 

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

 

2.png

 

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:

 

3.png

 

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

 

 

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Wolfgang

Tooltips Dimmer Callback

Status: New Submitted by Trusted Enthusiast on 08-30-2013 05:28 AM 1 Comment

As discussed here earlier I am using tooltips that show 'dynamic' information, e.g. the permitted data range of the respective control, available user actions..., These frequently depend on several other controls and parameters.

 

Right now, all other affected controls etc. need to call a function to re-build the tooltip text, and to more than 90% this is wasted effort because the tooltip text is changed again before it may get displayed...

 

Thus I would like to suggest a 'dimmer callback', similar to the menu dimmer callback. This 'tooltip dimmer callback' should be called just before the tooltip is going to be displayed, allowing to build/update the tooltip text only when needed.

 

Thanks

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Peter Cooper

CVI Function: GetPanelHandleFromTabPage has limitations

Status: Under Consideration Submitted by Member on 03-11-2011 03:42 PM 3 Comment

I added the tab control into panel to my project. Overtime, I added 20 items into the single Tab Control. But since were so many items in the tab control, I decided to re-arrange items (indexes) in the tab control by either moving them left or right depending on the alphabetical order. But here is my problem.

 

Since I re-arranged the items (indexes), the indexes have all changed for all the items. Now I have to go everywhere the function GetPanelHandleFromTabPage is called and manually update the index numbers to match panel handles for the index. There are 20 different places where this could occur. The number of items (indexes) on the tab control could grow even more and may have to be re-arranged again in the future. Just a big pain.

 

Suggestion for improvement: Provide a another function that can obtain the index of the item on the tab control dynamically. This could be done by using the "Constant name:" issued in the edit tab panel of the edit tab control. So if the items (index) inside the tab control are re-arranged then the index value for that item is carried with the new index value.

 

Also the index would be included in the header file generated by the panel editor for CVI so that now the index value can be used thus eliminating the hard coded the index value.

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Wolfgang

Decoration element

Status: New Submitted by Trusted Enthusiast on 02-21-2011 02:31 AM 4 Comment

Hi,

 

designing a screen layout I frequently encounter the wish to have not only rectangular (and circular) decoration elements, but also one of the type shown below.

 

decoration.jpg

 

Only the upper right rectangular shape can be realized now, while the more complex shape on the left is what I would like to see added in the future.

Instead of two parameters width and height four parameters would be required (two heights and two widths), may be even a fifth parameter specifying the orientation of the shape: as shown, mirrored in x, mirrored in y, mirrored in x and y.

 

Without doubt grouping control elements is useful; unfortunately these groups may differ in the number and type of control elements.

 

Thanks for consideration,

 

Wolfgang

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Wolfgang

Smarter popup menu in the IDE

Status: Under Consideration Submitted by Trusted Enthusiast on 08-08-2013 01:58 AM 1 Comment

Hello,

 

right clicking in the source code brings up a popup menu, see below.

 

Some of its items are dimmed or adapted to the context. For example, 'Format File' versus 'Format Selection'. This is nice and as I would expect it for a context menu!

 

Unfortunately, there are some entries that are available even if they are more ore less superfluous.

 

For example, 'Edit DAQ task' shows up even if no DAQ is installed. Selecting this menu entry only shows 'This feature requires DAQmx' - so why not dim it if no DAQmx library is available?

 

The same is true for 'Edit IVI Specific Driver Attributes...' and the IVI library.

 

But also 'Recall Function Panel', 'Browse Identifier' and 'Find UI object' don't care about their context.

'Open Quoted Text' for example, does! (which is good)

 

So I would suggest to have the popup menu act more consistently and only provide commands that are meaningful.

 

Thanks

 

popup menu.png

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TonyG614

Change control backgrounds

Status: Under Consideration Submitted by Member on 11-18-2010 05:32 PM 1 Comment

I'd like to be able to use custom backgrounds for controls like knobs, dials, and gauges.  I'd also like to be able to change the needle image as well.

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Wolfgang

panel events: MINIMIZE and RESTORE

Status: Completed Submitted by Trusted Enthusiast on 10-14-2010 06:44 AM 6 Comment

Hi,

 

in my application, several panels exist. Their size is fixed and can not be changed by the user, but they can be minimized and restored by the user. It would be nice to have the possibility to programmatically react to these MINIMIZE and RESTORE events. Right now, I have to poll the panel zoom attribute.

 

Thanks!

 

 

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RobertoBozzolo

Ability to add a comment to UIR panels / objects

Status: New Submitted by Proven Zealot on 10-01-2012 04:03 AM Comment

It would be nice to be able to add some comments on UIR objects in the editor.

 

I'm mainly concerned about versioning: sometimes I happen to apply some modifications to existing panels / objects that are not self evident and I run the risk of forgetting them while revising the project after a couple of weeks.

As an example, I have recently modified some string and text message controls using "Greek" character set so that I can embed omega and delta symbols in them. At present I have a text file describing all modifications I have done in the project, including those in the UIRs, but it means I need to revise this file when I open the project again. It would be good if I could  add a comment on those controls and have a visual reminder of it directly in the editor (e.g. with a little symbol like when you add a comment on an Excel cell) so that every time I open the UIR I see the presence of comments at a glance.