Quick Access to a LVOOP Class Library via the Right Click Menu

[Alex.T]

We're all familiar with how fast programming in LabVIEW can be when using the right click menu to quickly access the associated palettes of the function we've right clicked over. Below, we can see that right clicking on the DAQmx Create Virtual Channels VI gives us direct access to the DAQmx - Data Acquisition palette. This is a lot faster than manually navigating to the Functions Palette to get the same result.

However, nothing similar exists for when programming in LabVIEW Object Oriented Programming (LVOOP). Development for LVOOP programmers would speed up dramatically if they didn't have to switch back and forth between their VI and the project window when making use of VIs from their class library.

The idea is shown below. On the left, we have the current Right Click context menu available in LabVIEW. On the right, the suggestion; the programmer is able to search through all of the VIs that are accessible to the class without having to scroll through the Project Window.

[avogadro5]

This seems to have been implemented? Has been since I ramped up OOP usage in LV 2021.

[Darren]

That menu appears on a class constant right-click menu as your screenshot shows, and it also appears in the right-click menu for a class wire, but it does not appear on a class subVI right-click menu, which was the original idea request.

[avogadro5]

Ah got it. Fortunately when a class VI is on the block diagram, the wire is typically not far...

[crossrulz]

I have proved this feature in 2020 SP1. It is not in 2016. I do not currently have a version in between to check.

EDIT: Nevermind this comment. I posted it before seeing Darren's reply above.