Darren's Weekly Nugget 09/27/2010

[Stranman]

A great new option regardless!

[Ben]

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@Stranman wrote:

A great new option regardless!

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Agreed!

It rates right up there with the pocket knife, in that the tool in our pocket does not damage anything when we aren't looking.

Ben

[ohiofudu israel]

Nice for my typedef clusters,

Thanks Darren for the Nugget.

Ohiofudu

CLD

[Ray.R]

s-w-e-e-t

This is great.  No more sub-vi to hide the nasty clusterosaurus.

[KleeD]

I agree that it is a very convenient feature - but one thing: Currently the icons are displayed the same way as frontpanel elements would be displayed if we activated "show frontpanel elemets as symbols" in BD-settings. As far as I can see there is no way to display them as icons, right? Or did I miss something here?

I think such an option would increase the readability even more and the handling of cluster icons would work the same way as the handling of other symbols does.

[Darren]

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@KleeD wrote:

I agree that it is a very convenient feature - but one thing: Currently the icons are displayed the same way as frontpanel elements would be displayed if we activated "show frontpanel elemets as symbols" in BD-settings. As far as I can see there is no way to display them as icons, right? Or did I miss something here?

I think such an option would increase the readability even more and the handling of cluster icons would work the same way as the handling of other symbols does.

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The current behavior is that a non-typedef cluster constant will have a generic small cluster icon, and a typedef cluster constant will display the icon of the typedef VI. 

[KleeD]

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@Darren wrote:

The current behavior is that a non-typedef cluster constant will have a generic small cluster icon, and a typedef cluster constant will display the icon of the typedef VI. 

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Sorry I must have missed that, you even wrote it in the first post. I use typedefs most of the time so I just did not come across this yet. Makes perfect sense to me then.

Many thanks Darren

[DFGray]

Note that this gives you more incentive to put decent icons on your typedefs - so you can distinguish them when you convert them to icons.

[Ben]

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@DFGray wrote:

Note that this gives you more incentive to put decent icons on your typedefs - so you can distinguish them when you convert them to icons.

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This Nugget resembles that remark.

See this preview

Ben