When I need to edit a VI I didn't write, I find it irritating when the VI was created with IDE preferences that don't match my own. So I wrote this plugin that will "Nattify" any VI at the press of a button (Ctrl-Space, Ctrl-N to be specific). Nattification currently does the following: Turn off automatic error handling. Turn off auto grow on all structures. Make the front panel the default color. Change all control/indicator terminals on the block diagram to Terminal View. Move all error wires to the back of the Z-plane order. Rename the error control on the conpane to 'error in', and the error indicator to 'error out'. Set all subdiagram labels to 'Left' justification. Move control/indicator terminal labels to the left/right sides, respectively. Make control/indicator labels transparent. Clean up the panel and reposition/resize the window to the upper-left corner of the screen. Also reposition/resize the block diagram window to the upper-left corner of the screen. Note that this functionality was brazenly stolen from Kosta's Arrange VI Window plugin. If you don't want to modify the panel appearance, you can type 'p' in the Quick Drop window before pressing Ctrl-N. This will skip cleaning up the panel and changing its color. I understand you may not share all my same preferences. But that's cool, the code should be very easy to navigate (since I implemented it as a Natt Sequence), so feel free to install the plugin, then add/remove/modify any of the existing functionality to match your preferences. If you do add anything, let me know in the comments below, maybe it's something I'd also like, and I just haven't thought of it yet. This plugin can be used with LabVIEW 2017 and later. Default key assignment is Ctrl-N. See here for installation instructions. Make sure you place the support LLB next to the Nattify.vi on disk. P.S. - If this sounds familiar, I wrote a simpler version of this tool as part of my Don't Wait for LabVIEW R&D... Implement Your Own LabVIEW Features! presentation at NIWeek 2018.

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Thank you Darren!

Sam Taggart
CLA, CPI, CTD, LabVIEW Champion
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