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RobertoBozzolo

Make "Save changes" environment options project-specific

Status: New Submitted by Proven Zealot on 10-14-2015 05:20 AM Comment

As can be seen here, "Save changes" items in Environment options are global to the CVI IDE.

 

I suggest these options are made project-specific instead. The rationale behind this suggestion is simple: suppose I am developing project A and I enable autosave modifications before compiling and running the project; at the same time I may need to look at the code for project B already deployed to customers, and I want to prevent modifications to the code without notice. At present, while I am testing the application A I set these options to "Always"; if next I come and see the code for project B, I may accidentally make (and save!) modifications that change the code of the deployed app without notice Smiley Sad

If these options were per-project I would be granted I am not making mistakes.Smiley Happy

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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

Provide a 'Collapse All' menu entry for the Build Output window

Status: New Submitted by Trusted Enthusiast on 02-10-2018 11:41 AM 1 Comment

When compiling projects with several files the build output window sometimes is flooded with warning and error messages. Typically I focus on one file at a time and then have to scroll through this long list searching for the file of interest. In such a situation I would consider it useful having an additional menu entry in the right click menu (shown below) such as 'Collapse All', reducing the many lines in the build output window to one line per file, greatly simplifying the search for a specific file.build.png

 

Thanks!

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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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Johannes_T

Add Transparency Attribute for LabWindows/CVI Panels

Status: New Submitted by Active Participant on 07-31-2015 03:00 AM Comment

Add an attribute for LabWindows/CVI panels for setting transparency.

 

Currently, in order to achieve this behaviour users are forced to workaround this using Windows API.

Having an attribute for this purpose would allow users to benefit from this functionality more easily and would make LabWindows/CVI programs more cleaner.

 

Related forum discussion: http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabWindows-CVI/Transparent-Main-Panel/m-p/3172386

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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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Wolfgang

Improved error reporting

Status: New Submitted by Trusted Enthusiast on 06-03-2015 02:43 AM 3 Comment

When building a project consisting of many files it would be much more convenient if the Build Output would jump to the line with the first file showing an error (or, if no error occurred, to the first warning).

 

Right now, if there is a build error I have to scroll through the (possibly long) list of files to see which file produced the error; only then I can click on the error message to have the IDE highlight the problematic line.

 

Thanks

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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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john_cvi_user

Knowledge base Vs forum

Status: New Submitted by Member on 11-19-2014 03:46 AM 3 Comment

What is differnce between the forum and the knowledge base ?

As far as I see the forum is where users ask questions and answers are provided, often by NI representatives.

The Knowledge base appears also to be where questions are aksed have solutions provided.

 

This means that I could search the knowledge base when the same question/solution is in the forum and vise-versa. Can these be in some way combined with a better search function .

 

It would also be useful to remember search location based on user login - The amount of times I end up with a solution using LabView (I do not use and hopefully never will use Labview).

 

 

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Wolfgang

Provide virtual key for 'Print Screen' key

Status: New Submitted by Trusted Enthusiast on 02-04-2012 05:34 AM 2 Comment

Hi,

 

Almost all function keys found on my keyboard have a corresponding keycode that can be used e.g. in FakeKeystroke () - except 'Print Screen'. It's not obvious why this one has been left out, it would be convenient to also have support for this key, e.g. for generating a screenshot or a printout.

 

Thanks.

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macksel

Polynomial Curve Fitting with selectable fitting method

Status: New Submitted by Member on 06-23-2014 03:05 AM Comment

Goal:

Extend function PoyFit() available in package Advanced Analysis Library regarding the fitting method.

 

Details:

Up to now the above mentioned function is available with fitting method "Least Square" only, which is not always the best approach depending on the data and fitting problem. The fitting method "Least Absolute Deviations" (LAD) resp. "Least Absolute Residuals" (LAR) should be offered as well.

 

Hint:

There already exists a LabView-VI called "General Polynomial" which offers the selection of the fitting method: see link

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Wolfgang

Consistent Data Types aka Quality Control

Status: New Submitted by Trusted Enthusiast on 06-03-2014 08:27 AM Comment

As CVI evolves (in age and functionality) I feel that additional efforts are required for maintaining the product, i.e, keeping it 'consistent' and avoiding a 'mosaic look' as if assembled by different engineers in different decades... Smiley Wink

 

A simple example but also one I would like to see resolved is entering data types in the UI editor vs in a function call (PlotIntensity in this case):

 

 

edit_numeric.png      plotintensity.png

 

So, for example, long long translates to int64...  Why not simply use the identical terms??

 

I agree it could be worse but I also feel that this is a valid suggestion for future improvements...

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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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crazyfwed

Enhance tolerance towards versioning tools

Status: New Submitted by Member on 11-28-2011 05:29 AM 1 Comment

Here in my company we use SVN as versioning tool for CVI projects.

 

It is working fine enough. However, when users add files to the project, the .prj file is strongly modified.

 

Even if the lots of changes are quite useless, it may be more usefull if the changes would be minimal.

 

The worst case is when 2 users are comitting changes to the project file at the "same time", it finally ends with some conflicts.

 

 

So, please consider minimal changes to the project file for simple changes in the project (my secret wish is to, at least, keep the .prj file as text...)

 

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gdargaud

Refactoring

Status: New Submitted by Active Participant on 03-11-2014 07:55 AM Comment

Coupled with the Source Code Browser, there should be a 'Refactor' option to rename an identifier to something else. And only that one, not the homonyms from other contexts, which is something impossible to achieve with a search and replace.

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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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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

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

Portable 'Projects' (Import/Export 'Project')

Status: New Submitted by Trusted Enthusiast on 09-11-2013 02:56 AM 3 Comment

Hello,

 

usually I work on my projects on two different computers (home/work or development/lab). I would like to see a possibility to more easily move my project back and forth, say by providing two new menu commands

 

File / Import Project and File / Export Project

 

I imagine that the Export command generates a zip file consisting of all files required to build the executable (and a distribution) and also exports the editor preferences (probably without the window positions because different computers may have different screen resolutions) etc. The Import command then should load the *c., .cds, .cws, *.fp, *.h, *.prj and *.uir files, import the editor settings, adjust the library menu and load any instruments.

 

Thanks!

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