change default icon for new VI ?

[TiTou]

Hi all,

When I open a new VI, it comes with the default icon here :





Is there a way to modify this default icon ? I assume the "untitled.vi" comes from a template, so if I can find this template and modify its icon then there I am..
But if so, where can I find this template ?

Thanks for any help 😉

Message Edité par TiTou le 11-30-2006 06:20 PM

[Jarrod_S.]

You may not like this answer, but you could create your own template VI with the icon of your choice and place it in the following folder:
C:\Program Files\National Instruments\LabVIEW X.X\templates

You wouldn't be able to launch it simply by navigating to File >> New VI, but it would show up in the templates dialog when you select File >> New. I have a feeling you know this already, but maybe someone will benefit from it!

[TiTou]

Well... I asked this question because I am curremtly doing what you said and I was wondering if I could "automate" this...

After all... isn't LabVIEW a product supposed to improve everyday life ?

Thanks anyway for your answer 😉

Message Edité par TiTou le 11-30-2006 06:38 PM

[Jarrod_S.]

I don't believe that the new VI comes from a template. Many such things do in LabVIEW, but I would guess this operation is built into the LabVIEW source code itself. I could be wrong there. My only other suggestion for helping to automate this is to put a blank template VI of your choice in the LabVIEW\project folder. Then create a launcher VI that opens a reference to this VI for template editing as shown below. Put this in your project folder as well.

Now you have a direct menu option (i.e. Tools >> Launch Template...) for opening a new specialized template. I was hoping you could actually assign a specific shortcut to this menu option (for instance, Ctrl+N), since you can customize shortcuts in LabVIEW 8.x, but unfortunately this only applies to built-in menu options, not user VIs.

Message Edited by Jarrod S. on 11-30-2006 12:01 PM

[TCPlomp]

Hi Titou,

OpenG has some documentation about this kind of stuf, it is not very clear. But it works I can tell:
LvDocEnvEventCallback

Ton