Darren's Weekly Nugget 11/15/2010

[Darren]

I'm not a big fan of Auto Grow on structures:

I have deselected Tools > Options > Block Diagram > Place structures with Auto Grow enabled so none of my VIs have the option selected.  But sometimes I inherit code, and I am perturbed when stuff starts moving around on the diagram because the original author liked auto grow.  So I wrote this utility VI that will turn off Auto Grow on all structures in all VIs in a given folder:

Make sure to backup your VIs before running this utility.

[RavensFan]

If you don't have auto grow turned on, how do you make sure you don't wind up accidentally hiding things beyond the edges of the structures?

[JackDunaway]

Kudos for the great example that could act as a springboard for any type of VI batch processing! I must make two minor mods to the VI to make it more palatable to my own (and Ravens'?) taste:

[blawson]

An excellent springboard, indeed.  Here's a tweak that turns off "View as Icon" for all BD terminals.

[GregFreeman]

I ❤️ scripting.

[Darren]

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@Ravens Fan wrote:

If you don't have auto grow turned on, how do you make sure you don't wind up accidentally hiding things beyond the edges of the structures?

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I run the "Hidden Objects in Structures" test from the VI Analyzer Toolkit on my code as part of my nightly build.  Doesn't everybody?  😉

[ohiofudu israel]

Ohooooo.......Scripting all the  way.

Darren Thanks for the Nugget

Ohiofudu

CLD.

[F._Schubert]

Same concept: are all enums type def'ed?

Felix

[Ray.R]

Glad to see that I'm not the only one who dislikes autogrow.

Nice nugget.  I'll have to borrow this code and put it in my bags of tricks.

[SULLutions]

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@Ravens Fan wrote:

If you don't have auto grow turned on, how do you make sure you don't wind up accidentally hiding things beyond the edges of the structures?

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Turn on Show Warnings by default.