LabWindows/CVI Idea Exchange

Hello,

 

searching through the C code for specific controls first and foremost requires the knowledge of the control's name... If there are some hundred it may get difficult to remember and thus I typically have to check the UI for the constant name. Clicking on the control shows its name in the status bar, a welcome feature, but unfortunately I cannot directly use this text for searching...

 

 

What I suggest is allow copying this status bar field using CTRL+C; then it's possible to switch to the C code, press CTRL+F and CTRL+V... (The property browser is not really useful here because it only lists 'NUMERIC_7' and misses the associated panel)

 

Another, even more powerful feature would be to add a right click popup menu either to this status bar field ('Search C code for this constant') or to the control popup itself: Besides 'Generate control callback' etc. I'd like to see another entry 'Find control in C code'

 

Thanks!

Hello,

watch expressions support the possibility to monitor changes of variables by placing the variable in the watch window. Unfortunately, at present it seems impossible to put a 2 D variable in the watch window, e.g., x_data [  2  ] [  3  ].

The new idea is to allow this

Thanks!

Hello,

 

I would consider it quite convenient having a simple CVI function, similar to GetPanelDisplayBitmap, providing a true screenshot image of a CVI panel.

 

As discussed here, the CVI function GetPanelDisplayBitmap does not provide a screenshot image of the panel, i.e. the bitmap lacks all OS-specific features (color theme etc.).

 

For backward compatibility reasons, NI should provide a new function, returning a bitmap that looks the same as if I would have pressed Alt+Prt Sc

 

 

Thanks!

CVI currently jumps to the first entry in the build output window, whether this is a warning or an error. I'd like to suggest an option to see the point of the first error, if there is any, before any warning. Maybe they could be color coded, too. When starting a new project I usually place some TODO messages (#pragma message) and if this is in a global header file I always see this and not the build error.

Hello,

 

building on this suggestion I'd like to see a more comfortable panel of the UI editor for editing label/value pairs, see below:

 

 

Suggested changes:

 

1. Add the possibility to dim / hide the selected entry
2. Add the possibility to insert separators in the GUI editor, not only programmatically
    
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When compiling projects with several files the build output window sometimes is flooded with warning and error messages. Typically I focus on one file at a time and then have to scroll through this long list searching for the file of interest. In such a situation I would consider it useful having an additional menu entry in the right click menu (shown below) such as 'Collapse All', reducing the many lines in the build output window to one line per file, greatly simplifying the search for a specific file.

 

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As of CVI2013 data tooltips and variable view do some kind of automatic rounding but based on 15 digits only... This prevents tracking numeric / rounding issues. Unfortunately, no possibility exists to show the full precision of doubles... Phrased more drastically one you cannot use CVI to debug numeric issues...

 

So I suggest to urgently add

 

 

• as a minimum version the possibility to show true numbers, not rounded numbers, allowing true debugging
• as a more general version the possibility to adjust the precision of displayed numeric values

                 

 

 Hi

 

It would be nice for the distribution to be in one installer able file.

Which i could then send to a customer.

 

Regards

Shakeel