LabWindows/CVI Idea Exchange

Hello,

imho the nice tool tips feature provided by the Programmer's Toolbox leads a miserable existence, because it is extra effort integrating it into a GUI.

I would love to see the tool tips integrated into the IDE, that is, when editing a control in the GUI editor, I would like to be able to also set the tool tips text and if it is initially enabled, just like it is possible to enter a control label text. This would include moving the tool tips from the Toolbox to the regular user interface library.

Many Thanks!

Hello,

following the discussion here I suggest to (more clearly) indicate the number of allocated rows and columns in the UI table editor.

I imagine something like

where the left number indicates (as now) the currently selected row, and the right number (11 in my quick example) indicates the number of all table rows.

The same might also be added for the number of total columns.

Thanks.

At present, the only option to jump to a panel callback is Ctrl-P shortcat from the UIR editor (or Code >> View >> Panel callback menu selection). Even longer is to generate a panel callback, which can only be done via Code >> Generate >> Panel callback menu chain.

I'd like to have added two options to panel context menu in the UIR editor: Generate Panel Callback and View Panel Callback, in the same way as those options are present in a control context menu; something like this:

I want the batchbuilt window sizeable.

My cws consits of 51 projects, and the configurations-list is no longer useable. I just can see the project names, but not able to see the "release/debug/..." additional informations of the projects to be built. The list looks like

" c:/../../Task_AutomaticMeasurement.prj - D"

" c:/../../Task_FullAutomaticMeasurement ..."

We're currently in the era of the large widescreen monitor.  Can we have the title bar in the IDE show the full path name of opened instead of abbreviating it with '...' if the window is large enough to show the full path name?  Thanks.

Personally I don't like the "unsorted" look of the libs as it is now. I always create a libs branch and put them there. This way the branch can be collapsed and saves space I don't have to scroll when having multiple projects in one workspace. Libs are files I don't edit that often so I don't have to see them all the time.

For every other file type CVI "knows" at the Add Files to Project sub menu, there is automatically a branch created - but not for libs.

One nice feature of menu bars is their capability of grouping different items using a separator.

Having ring controls with many text entries it would be nice from a user perspective if these many entries also could be grouped using one or more separators.

What would be also convenient is the ability to dim or hide a specified entry; right now it is possible to rebuild the ring programmatically with one or several entries less (or more), but this is some overhead that could be minimized by simply hiding or showing an indexed entry.

If you have a Numeric Indicator, and you set "Range checking" to Notify, CVI will show an ugly popup when you enter a value out of range.

If you set this property to "Coerce", the value you enter is coerced in range, but no specific event is generated.

I think that an EVENT_VAL_COERCED would be really useful: using this event you could easily show a message popup, for example.

The additional columns of a tree can be hidden using SetTreeColumnAttribute() with ATTR_COLUMN_VISIBLE parameter. This is an easy and effective way.

For a table this attribute isn't supported, so you can use some workaround that requires more coding and have some disadvantages (for example if you set the width to the minimum value of 1, the user can increase it with the mouse...).

I think that the ATTR_COLUMN_VISIBLE parameter would solve this needs in the perfect way.

Hi,

in my application, several panels exist. Their size is fixed and can not be changed by the user, but they can be minimized and restored by the user. It would be nice to have the possibility to programmatically react to these MINIMIZE and RESTORE events. Right now, I have to poll the panel zoom attribute.

Thanks!

This topic has been discussed insome threads:

• http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabWindows-CVI/Network-Variable-Folders/m-p/901592
• http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabWindows-CVI/Network-Variable-sub-process/m-p/1117506

Unfortunately CVI doesn't support this feature, but LabVIEW probably does.

I think that CVI should implement this feature too, because grouping scalar variables into folders and subfolders is an approach commonly used by OPC Servers, and the Network Variables are a simple way to create an OPC Server with a CVI application.

Hello,

in the IDE of CVI it is possible to have both a toolbar and a status bar. Now if a file has been changed and could be saved, the disk icon is undimmed in both the status bar and the tool bar. For the tool bar, a single click is sufficient to save, while the status bar requires a double click.

While this double click behavior is true for all status bar actions (lock, unlock...), personally I would find it less irritating if the staus bar also would react on single clicks instead of double clicks.

Thanks for consideration,

Wolfgang 

This is just a kind little reminder (see the discussion here) to make the undocumented plot type attribute ATTR_PLOT_TYPE public, including definitions of the various plot types such as VAL_PLOT_XY

While at present it's possible to obtain various attributes such as line thickness and color, the plot type as the most basic aspect officially is not supported...

Panels and controls scrollbars have fixed size (height for horizontal ones, and width for vertical ones) that can't be changed and doesn't reflect the Operating System setting (see attachment).

For tree control, for example, there is the option "Small/Medium/Large" but this isn't enough if you're designing an user interface for a touch screen panel, where you must drag scrollbars with your finger.

The custom scrollbars are built over a graph control, and are quite ugly, compared to the Visual Studio style...

I think a fully settable scrollbar size would be a great improvement...

It would be convienent at times if the ListFindItem() function could seach a ListType by descending order (or in other words, starting at the end of the list and working towards the beginning).  This would be convienent when there are potentially multiple items in the list that match the search function, and I want to find the last instance.  This could work similar to the existing "Order" parameter that exists in ListApplyToEachEx().  Thanks.

this is yet another spectacular suggestion

In the CVI editor, the status line gives some useful information, e.g. that the file has been modified and needs to be saved; this is indicated by floppy disk symbol.

I miss this symbol in the status line of the UIR editor and would like to have it there, too.

Thats's it