LabWindows/CVI Idea Exchange

Starting with CVI2012 NI provides Win7 style popup menus to select files or a directory. Unfortunately, with the new functions is is not possible to select files from more than one directory, and it is also not possibly to select multiple directories. So one has to choose either to use the old-fashioned, outdated look and feel from the MultiFileSelectPopup function, or to use the new design but limited functionality... This choice is not a good one

I vote for a combination of the two - the look of the new and the features of the old functions

Hi,

this is a very tiny suggestion, but still I would consider it a very convenient improvement:

Right now, if I am using the 'Find' command in the IDE with a typo in the search string (this happens frequently...!), press F3, I receive a popup message telling me that the string 'xxx' has no matches. After pressing OK the popup disappears, but also the Find window disappears! So I have to press Ctrl-F again just to correct my search string.

Hence I suggest that in case a search is not successful, (the popup disappears but) the Find window remains open. This is also true if the search was successful, so I would even consider the current behavior inconsistent  

Thanks!

In this thread it has been discussed how PlotScaledIntensity() handles NAN values.

In CVI 2010 SP1 NAN values are plotted with the center-scale color (and this is a bug).

Unfortunately the fix is not easy, and there could be different ideas on how NAN values should be handled.

I suggest not to plot NAN values, or to plot them transparent so that the plot area size is visible under NAN pixels.

When you use NAN values in PlotY(), for example, this points are not plotted.

Hello,

the FileSelectPopup(Ex) provides the option to choose 'Select' or 'Load'... buttons with the benefit that the users choice of files can be limited to existing files only.

Unfortunately, the new MultiFileSelectPopupEx behaves differently, with the new function the user can always select new file even if it doesn't make sense in a specific context, hence the programmer has to take extra care for this scenario. Also, the response is different for "newfile.c" "existing1.c" "existing2.c" and "existing1.c" "existing2.c" "newfile.c". From a users perpective, however, this doesn't make much sense.

I understand that most of these restrictions result from Windows and thus can not be easily changed.

But may be it is possible to use a similar idea of different buttons (OK vs. Select) for the multifile popup, too, allowing the programmer to limit the user to select exisiting files only. OK would keep the current behavior, while Select would restrict the choice of files to existing files only.

Thanks!

Customer who has used CVI for years and likes it was looking a Mstudio for the reason that a lot of his new engineers can't or don't do the regular C programming.  He likes Mstudio as an idea but, with the extra cost of adding MS Visual Studio and dealing with a they support/We support issues of having two SW pkg from 2 different companies gives him pause about purchasing.  He stated he likes CVI because if there is an issue (even if rare) he know that NI will help to figure it out. I let him know I'd provide the feedback.