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The ability to move or switch items in the connector pane

Submitted by Knight of NI Knight of NI on ‎06-01-2009 02:16 PM 15 Comments (15 New)
Status: Completed

Available in LabVIEW 2010 and later. Click a terminal in the connector pane, then Ctrl-Click another terminal to swap the controls/indicators wired to those terminals. This technique also works to swap a wired terminal with an empty terminal.

A great time saver would be if we could drag or click to switch connections directly in the connector pane instead of having to disconnect and reconnect controls.

 

This can be a simple two click process:

 

Switch Connections.png

 

If there's already another control\indicator where you click, they get switched.


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RayFarmer
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‎06-03-2009 06:16 AM
‎06-03-2009 06:16 AM
That is an excellent suggestion.
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altenbach
Knight of NI Knight of NI
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‎06-03-2009 03:56 PM
‎06-03-2009 03:56 PM

In addition, we should also have the following shortcut:

 

<Shift>-clicking a used connector should disconnect it

 

(faster than right-click...drag down...overshoot...drag up...select "disconnect this terminal"...release mouse...).

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GregFreeman
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‎06-08-2009 04:36 PM
‎06-08-2009 04:36 PM
One more thing I've noticed. If there is a reason this cannot be done, or in a version later than 8.5.1 it can be done let me know. But it would be nice to be able to select the control then the connector pane. Sometimes I will have the control selected, but have to choose the connector then re-select the control. Again if there is a way around this then disregard this comment 🙂

Message Edited by for(imstuck) on 06-08-2009 04:38 PM
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tst
Knight of NI Knight of NI
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‎06-09-2009 02:18 AM
‎06-09-2009 02:18 AM
it would be nice to be able to select the control then the connector pane

You can do this if you explicitly set your tool to the wiring tool, but I never bothered. I agree it's annoying, though.

 

Since most controls probably don't have a third common action, it would probably be useful if Ctrl could change to the wiring tool, but since I don't use that feature (Shift and Ctrl to get secondary operation) either, I doubt it would be worth it.

 

A nice compromise might be that if you have a single selected control on the FP and you click on an empty terminal in the connector pane, the control gets associated with that terminal.


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JackDunaway
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‎07-06-2009 10:38 AM
‎07-06-2009 10:38 AM
Congratulations on the first ever 100 Kudos'd post! 06 July 2009
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muks
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‎07-16-2009 04:30 AM
‎07-16-2009 04:30 AM
I am sure this has reached where it was intented to. Nice one!!
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Wonger
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‎10-14-2009 11:34 AM
‎10-14-2009 11:34 AM
This is a great idea, we will be working on this for 2010.
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Wonger
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‎10-14-2009 11:35 AM
‎10-14-2009 11:35 AM
Status changed to: In Development
 
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‎10-14-2009 11:55 AM
‎10-14-2009 11:55 AM
Thanks.

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‎10-15-2009 10:47 AM
‎10-15-2009 10:47 AM
I am stoked that this is In Development. Congratulations tst.
Richard






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