"New -> Child Class" menu item

[samapico]

When creating a class hierarchy, I find it repetitive to have to create a New -> Class, then go in the class properties to set its inheritance. It would be nice to be able to create a new child class directly by right-clicking an existing .lvclass in the project explorer, and selecting New -> Child Class.

[Mr.Mike]

I think this is going to be one of those "Why the heck didn't I think of that?" ideas for a lot of people 😉

[dthor]

Why the heck didn't I think of that?

Seriously though, great Idea. I'm still pushing for my Graphical Manipulation of Class Inheritance Idea, and I think your idea is at least a step in the right direction.

[SteveChandler]

I wish I could kudo this again. Why only 24 kudos? There must be more than 24 people reading this that create child classes!

[smmarlow]

This is an old idea that I was going to submit but found it here.  My reaction is the same as the others: why only 41 kudos?  Seriously, it should have 400.  I would also like to add an option to have the New -> Child Class copy all of the VI implementations of the parent to the child.  I find it cumbersome to have to re-create the parent VI's when creating a child that has different implementations for most of the parent VI's (such as hardware drivers for similar devices from different manufacturers)

[SteveChandler]

Anything LVOOP related seems to top out around fourteen kudos. For comparison to non-LVOOP ideas multiply the number of kudos by ten. That makes this one a home run.

[_carl]

Just to repeat everyone else...came here to request exactly this, how does this not have more kudos?

I lose minutes every time I create a new class on large projects -- there's no efficient way to navigate the existing tree, and I would take this right-click approach every time if it existed!  This single feature would literally save me hours a month...