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Johannes_T

Swap Lines

Status: New Submitted by Active Participant on 03-12-2012 11:05 AM 1 Comment

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Implement Swap Lines shortcut key (Alt+Up/Down).

 

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Often, I need to swap two lines of code in my source file or maybe just move one or several lines up or down inside my code.

In order to do this, you normally have to do a cut and paste in order to move the lines.

 

Having a Swap Lines feature in the CVI source editor could significantly speed up this process, especially when you have to handle big chunks of code.

The Swap Lines mechanism could be triggered by the Alt+Up/Down.

This feature should also support multiple lines selections.

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shel

Allow Large Arrays

Status: New Submitted by Member on 02-19-2012 11:02 PM 1 Comment

A byte array is limited to 2GB because the index is an int. Allow the use of long for an index so large arrays can be used.

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tstanley

Clearly document which NI-Vision and NI-IMAQ functions require a deployment license

Status: New Submitted by Active Participant on 01-25-2012 10:03 AM Comment

On my development machine, I have access to various library functions in the NI-Vision library.  Some of these functions apparenly require the NI-Vision Acquistion license, and some of these require the NI-Vision Runtime license, and some of these require no license.  They are all mixed together and I can find no documentation anywhere that tells me which license(s) I need to put on the deployed computers given what library functions I call in my application.  The only reliably way I have found to determine this is to deploy a test application to a PC that is not licensed and see if the function call fails with an ERR_UNREGISTERED.  It seems that there should be a better way.  Thanks.

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Steve D.

Allow simple line drawing between controls in CVI panels

Status: New Submitted by Member on 11-27-2011 10:18 AM 7 Comment

When developing a process mimic, it is very helpful to have lines and arrows linking the controls, to make it easier to visualise the process flow. A simple example would be to have a line or an arrow from the control that sets a motor's voltage to the control that shows the measured motor speed. Obviously any real-world example would be much more complicated than this.

 

If there is already a way of doing this, then my request is to make it much more clear in the help system. My searches yielded nothing beyond making a bitmap in another tool, putting controls on top and controlling the Z-plane to get what I want.

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Wolfgang

MultiDirSelectPopup

Status: New Submitted by Trusted Enthusiast on 11-10-2011 11:15 AM Comment

Hi,

 

In an application I allow users to select

  • one file (using FileSelectPopup)
  • one or more files (using MultiFileSelectPopup) or 
  • all files in a given directory using DirSelectPopup.

 

Unfortunately it is not possible to select two or three directories. Of course this can be emulated using MultiFileSelectPopup and marking all the files in all directories - but without the comfort of simply clicking a few folder names.

 

I thus would like to see a companion function MultiDirSelectPopup allowing the selection of several directories, in close analogy to MultiFileSelectPopup.

 

 

Thanks!

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tstanley

Numeric Prompt Pop-up

Status: New Submitted by Active Participant on 11-07-2011 11:34 AM Comment

It might be handy at times to have a built-in pop up type like the PromptPopup, but is intended for prompting the user for a number as opposed to a string.  I've run across this need many times, and I either have to roll my own pop up, or use the PromptPopup/GenericMessagePopup with a Scan() command a bunch of checking to make sure the user input a number and not a string or a character and so forth.  I would imagine such a pop up panel would take a variable type (VAL_DOUBLE, VAL_INTEGER, etc.), a default value, min/max limits, and possibly some other parameters like precision, format, and increment.  Thanks.

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jk4166

Add Methods for Ethernet Configuration Utility

Status: New Submitted by Member on 10-10-2011 11:32 AM Comment

The NI-488.2 driver contains a utility called EthernetConfig.exe which displays all Ethernet devices on the subnet. The information displayed is the IP address/hostname, ethernet address, serial number and model for each ethernet device. It would be useful for users to be able to use this utility in their text-based programming languages, instead of having to open a separate application. 

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kirkm

copy entire folder with all files and sub-folders

Status: New Submitted by Member on 09-27-2011 04:11 PM Comment

Add a function to the utilities library that can copy an entire folder along with all its files and sub folders.

Similar to what the command line xcopy can do.

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Al.B

Move "Build Options" to the build menu

Status: New Submitted by on 09-20-2011 04:26 PM Comment

Currently, this option is in the Options menu, but I think that it makes more sense under build (next to target settings).  I understand the reasoning for this may be that the build options are an environment setting rather than a project-specific one, but I always look under build for this option.  It also doesn't really fit with all of the other items in the build menu, which are all environment related.

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tstanley

Make the "Build Steps" special variables work in the "Edit Installer" box

Status: New Submitted by Active Participant on 09-20-2011 08:31 AM Comment

It would be handy to be able to use some of the special variables like %CVIPROJDIR% and %CVITARGETPRODVER% in the "Edit Installer" dialog box, mostly so that the "Output directory" name can be autogenerated.  Thanks.

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David_Lee

IPV6 and asynchronous socket communication support

Status: New Submitted by Member on 09-15-2011 09:58 PM Comment

Hi,

 

Due to more and more applications using ipv6 as the network communication address, e.g. in the internet of things application,  and in many SCADA field , there also need the asynchronous connect by socket, so hope  CVI developers can provide these support.

 

 

David

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Andre_Saller

Control Array containing Controls from multiple panels or tabs

Status: New Submitted by Active Participant on 09-02-2011 05:30 AM Comment

The control arrays are great. They would be even greater if controls from multiple panels or tabs could be added to a single control array.

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Andre_Saller

Tile Sourcecode Windows inside the IDE

Status: New Submitted by Active Participant on 09-02-2011 05:27 AM 1 Comment

Tiling windows is only possible, when they are released from the IDE before. But navigating between the IDE and the released windows is difficult. It would be nice if the sourcecode and uir windows could be tiled INSIDE the IDE. Could look like this:

tiledwindow.JPG

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Wolfgang

UI editor: allow replacing similar controls

Status: New Submitted by Trusted Enthusiast on 08-07-2011 01:59 PM 2 Comment

Hello,

 

once in a while, typically when creating a new UI, I find myself playing with different control styles, e.g. ring or menu ring, or different types of decoration (classic vs. lab style...).

 

Unfortunately, it is not possible to easily replace one type of control with one of its relatives: I imagine an additional command in the right-click popup menu: below 'Edit Control' I'd like to have a 'Replace Control' command which permits replacing e.g. a 'Recessed Narrow Frame' with a 'Recessed Box', keeping location, size and z-plane order (in general, as many attributes as possible)

 

Thanks for consideration.

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ASIC_LabRat

The CVI to FPGA API still requires LabVIEW

Status: New Submitted by Member on 08-03-2011 02:52 PM Comment

No thanks NI, I still need to have a LabVIEW developer to program a FPGA, I really need to handle this in CVI or the native Impact language of Xilinx. Can we develop a method that does not using LabVIEW? Chip

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CVI-User

Provide a version of or an extra parameter for GetUserEvent so that it doesn't wait during a tracking loop

Status: New Submitted by Member on 08-02-2011 08:39 AM Comment

I find this full stop at GetUserEvent because of a tracking loop (e.g. mouse pointer hovers at a menu bar) irritating.

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ciaoa

Correct interpreting control characters in Textbox

Status: New Submitted by Member on 06-01-2011 01:11 AM Comment

The Textbox (until CVI2010) interprets the control characters not correctly. The only control character, which is correctly interpreted is "Line Feed" (LF, "\n"). "Carriage Return" (CR, "\r") for example, is also interpreted as "Line Feed" (LF). Other control characters like "DEL", "Back Space" etc. are not interpreted. TAB ("\t") is interpreted, so far I know. Is it possible that the Textbox interprets the control characters correctly? This would make the use of the function "SetCtrlVal(...)" very good.

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Wolfgang

Save window position of Array Display

Status: New Submitted by Trusted Enthusiast on 05-06-2011 06:41 AM 4 Comment

Debugging code involving arrays is complicated by the facts that

 

  1. In order to view a value from an array one has to press first Shift F7 and then F4: one key press would be simpler Smiley Wink Right now only graphical array view has its one click shortcut...
  2. Every time I restart the program I have to reposition the array display window to a place where it does not overlap with source code window, variable window,... It would be much more convenient if the window position of Array Display could also be saved such that in the next run and pressing Shift F7, F4 the window would be usable immediately, without the need to reposition it

Thanks!

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Wolfgang

spell checking of source code comments

Status: New Submitted by Trusted Enthusiast on 04-21-2011 08:04 AM 2 Comment

Hello,

 

I'd like to suggest the option of enabling spell checking of comments in source code

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ciaoa

CVI editor menu option for copying RunTime DLLs to project directory

Status: New Submitted by Member on 03-10-2011 02:48 AM Comment

Some created CVI executeables, which don't need access to registry entries or don't have other DLL, module or driver dependencies, so no installation (distribution kit) is required, are not running without the CVI RunTime DLLs. A menu option (macro) in the CVI editor might be fine, that copies all necessary CVI RunTime DLLs to the project directory. This helps to run the program on any computer without installation. Otherwise, I have to find and copy the DLLs to the windows\system32 folder (for which I need administrator rights) or to the folder, where the EXE file is.

 

The possibility, to copy the RunTime DLLs, is only in the Edit Distribution dialog available (so far no dependencies are necessary).

 

Thanks

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