customize quick drop with ctrl+a

[AdamTrojak]

Hello to all

I want to ask you for help with customizing my quick drop. I am missing shortcut ctrl+A (select all). For example when I am typing name of the function in quick drop window, but i made a mistake, or a typo and I want to write the name of the function again, but without pressing Backspace key (I am using one hand and Darren's nuggets;p). 

Any ideas? 

PS: English is not my native language, so if it wasnt clear I will provide some screenshots;)

Thanks in advance!!

[crossrulz]

Select All is not available in the QD.  That is because Darren programed in the capability of making plugins to do whatever you want with scripting using Ctrl+a key.  See here for more information: List of Community Quick Drop Keyboard Shortcuts

[AdamTrojak]

And there's no way around...?

[crossrulz · Accepted solution]

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@AdamTrojak wrote:

And there's no way around...?

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No.  The Ctrl combinations inside of QuickDrop were setup to be for plugins, nothing more.

[AdamTrojak]

Well... that's a shame. But thank you for a replay

[tst]

You can replace QD with your own VI which will do the same functionality and not have this issue, but the QD dialog itself was password protected the last time I looked, so you will probably have to write it from scratch. It should live in <LabVIEW>\resource\dialog.

I haven't checked, but I assume that not having a Ctrl+A shortcut does not help?

And you could also try asking Darren to upload a modified version of QD which does respect this, but I don't know if he has the time to deal with this. The QDKS group is probably the best place to post such a question.

[Darren]

The text field in Quick Drop supports the Ctrl-X/C/V shortcuts for cut/copy/paste. The are natively supported by the LabVIEW combo box (which is used for the Quick Drop text field). Unfortunately, the combo box does not natively support Ctrl-A for 'select all', which is why this functionality isn't working.

I've filed CAR 578918 to see if I can implement Ctrl-A in the Quick Drop code itself to perform a 'select all', assuming there isn't a Quick Drop keyboard shortcut assigned to the 'A' key. Hopefully I'll be able to do something about this in a future LabVIEW version.

Thanks for posting about the issue. As tst suggested, please post any future Quick Drop questions/suggestions to the Quick Drop Enthusiasts community group.

[AdamTrojak]

Well... first of all It is like meeting a celebrity, to have a topic ansered by you Darren;)

I do understand, that it is not the most crucial functionality of qd, however I would find it very usefull. In fact it would be great to have this functionality avaiable in LabVIEW itself, not only in QD (like filling blanks in constants or controls, and using tab key, to switch between next cells in arrays). 

But I am glad that the suggestion had been heard;)

Take care 

and best wiring!