LabWindows/CVI Idea Exchange

Hello,

working with larger UIs may result in scrollbars showing up in the UI editor. Hence it would be nice if hitting the 'PageUp' or 'PageDown' keys would scroll the page up or down, respectively. Also 'Home', 'End' and the four cursor keys should be supported, similar to their functionality in the text editor. 

Thanks!

I would consider it useful if the Build Output would state the total number of errors in a file - right now it says: 1 file with errors, but especially if you start with many errors I find it helpful to see if a change in code reduces the error count.

To my knowledge earlier versions of CVI provided this information, which disappeared with clang integration.

Related posts are here and here

For some specific projects it's required that the code is compliant to MISRA C guidelines (see here)

A feature to check the compliance of the C code with MISRA C guidelines would be useful.

The best option would be to have the possibility to select a subset of the rules or to disable some of them.

This suggestion comes from this discussion: basically, it seems strange to me that I may have a disabled quit button and the close control (the red cross in the upper right corner of the panel) which is active at the same time.

It seems to me that the close control should honour the state of an existing quit button declared in Close control panel attribute. At present the only solution is to test the state of the button within the button callback itself.

If this idea is not accepted, at least a note should be added to the documentation, e.g. in ATTR_CLOSE_CTRL help page, specifying that the callback is fired regardless the state of the control.

sometimes i use the table object in CVI but there is one function that is missing and i think it's really usefull, the one that give you the ring index directly.

now i'm doing it in this way, maybe there is a better way to do it but i've not spent too much time to do it.

/// HIFN This function give you the item ring index.
/// HIRET an integer value containing the function result.
/// HIPAR panel/panel handle where the control is located.
/// HIPAR control/which control i have to analyze.
/// HIPAR column/in what column i have to look.
/// HIPAR row/in what row i have to look.
static int GetTableIndex(int panel, int control, int column, int row)
{
	int Result = {0};
	long IndexLength = {0};
	char *IndexTemp = {0};
	
	GetTableCellValLength(panel, control, MakePoint (column, row), &IndexLength);
	IndexTemp = calloc(IndexLength + 1, sizeof(char));
	GetTableCellAttribute (panel, control, MakePoint (column, row), ATTR_CTRL_VAL, IndexTemp);
	GetTableCellRingIndexFromValue (panel, control, 0, MakePoint (column, row), &Result, IndexTemp);
	free(IndexTemp);
	IndexTemp = 0;
	return Result;
}