From UI editor to UI browser

[RobertoBozzolo]

I may be missing something, but... if you double click on a UI browser element you'll go to the corresponding panel or control in the editor. I can't find a way to go the opposite way (from a control in the user interface editor to the corresponding item in the user interface browser tree): this could be useful in case of complex UIR files with several panels and controls, especially if you have more than one control array in it.

Can you point me to the correct method of getting it apart from manually searching in the tree?

[Stefano.Caiola]

I tried many times but I think you can't....

The simplest method that I've found is double click on the item, copy the constant name, right click on the Panels root of the tree and insert the constant name in the Find window....

[RobertoBozzolo]

Posted a suggestion in CVI Idea Exchange

[Wolfgang]

Hello Roberto,

unfortunately I did not understand your request... if I click on a control in the UI editor, say a numeric, the corresponding entry is automatically shown in the UI browser, see the attachment. I guess you meant something else?

[RobertoBozzolo]

I was intending to locate the control in the upper tree of the UI editor: this is useful in case of a control included in a control array, since this one is defined only at tree level

[Wolfgang]

Thank you

So now I can support your suggestion in the Idea Exchange

[gdargaud]

Wolfgang, I've never seen the kind of view you show in your screenshot. How do you get it ?

[Wolfgang]

Hi,

if you are using the UI editor you will find the User Interface Browser (tree view of the user interface objects) and the Attribute Browser (tree view of the attributes and values) at its right side - provided that the User Interface Editor is confined.

The depicted screenshot shows the Attribute Browser located at the lower right side of the UI editor... hope the explanation wasn't too confused...

[gdargaud]

Hah, that's the thing, I prefer to have 50 windows partly overlapping each others, so I prefer the classic view to the integrated view. But why are there options such as this one not available in classic view ? That's a bug, right ?

Also a bug I mentioned years ago is still being ignored: the event names are not displayed anymore when using the [Operate tool].

[Wolfgang]

It's a missing feature... I had suggested to implement it back in 2011, you can support and find it here