LabWindows/CVI Idea Exchange

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.

Using CVI I can't find an easy way of moving inside a source code file.

Based on my experience with other C editors, I suggest these 3 little features that I think are really useful:

• a shortcut to jump to the beginning of previous function in the same source file (CTRL + PGUP, for example)
• a shortcut to jump to the beginning of next function in the same source file (CTRL + PGDWN, for example)
• the current function where the caret is, displayed in the toolbar. It will be nice if you use a combo so that the user can jump to a different function with a simple mouse click (see attachment)

I have thease features in an open source C/C++ editor (Code::Blocks) I use for other projects, and I think they're really useful to reduce the coding time.

When you have large source files with a lot of functions, with CVI is't difficult to easily see where you are inside the file; moreover it's quite common scrolling the file jumping from a function to another.

This is just a kind little reminder (see the discussion here) to make the undocumented plot type attribute ATTR_PLOT_TYPE public, including definitions of the various plot types such as VAL_PLOT_XY

While at present it's possible to obtain various attributes such as line thickness and color, the plot type as the most basic aspect officially is not supported...

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!

In the project window you can organize the project files into some "virtual" folders (Source Files, Include Files, ...)

If you right-click on the project name, you can add a folder with the item "Add Folder...".

If you right-click on one of these folders, you can add one or more files files.

But it's impossible to create a subfolder of one of these folders.

Every large project has a lot of files (sources, ini-files, images, icons, ...), so I think it's quite common having them saved into different "real" folders and subfolders. If you don't explicitly add these files to the project, you can add them to the distribution kit browsing your hard disk "real" folders, but in this situation the absolute path of the files is used. And if you move all your project from a PC to another one you won't be able to recreate the distribution kit without errors if you don't save the whole project to the same folder you use in the first PC.

And this is a really big problem.

For files explicitly added to the project, instead, the relative path is used, and this is OK, so the best situation is to add all the files in the project window.

So it's necessary create a full structure of virtual folders and subfolders.

Panels and controls scrollbars have fixed size (height for horizontal ones, and width for vertical ones) that can't be changed and doesn't reflect the Operating System setting (see attachment).

For tree control, for example, there is the option "Small/Medium/Large" but this isn't enough if you're designing an user interface for a touch screen panel, where you must drag scrollbars with your finger.

The custom scrollbars are built over a graph control, and are quite ugly, compared to the Visual Studio style...

I think a fully settable scrollbar size would be a great improvement...

If you have a Numeric Indicator, and you set "Range checking" to Notify, CVI will show an ugly popup when you enter a value out of range.

If you set this property to "Coerce", the value you enter is coerced in range, but no specific event is generated.

I think that an EVENT_VAL_COERCED would be really useful: using this event you could easily show a message popup, for example.