Quick Drop: Insert In-Place Element structure with wire sensitive border nodes.

[stbe]

Summary:

This Quick Drop Plug-In inserts In-Place Element structures (IPEs) onto selected wires / wire branches. It adds wire-data-type dependant border nodes and may also wire the internal terminals (if the Shift key was pressed).

Function:

The plugin creates an undo-history and analyzes the selected wires on the block diagram. IPEs are inserted and the terminals rewired.

If only  branches of a wire have been selected, the plugin recognizes which path (from source to sink) the selected branch was on and only connects selected  branches to the output (right) side of the IPE while unselected branches  are connected (forked) at the input (left) side.

Steps to execute code:

1. Place the contents of the file archive to: "C:\Program Files\National Instruments\LabVIEW 2010\resource\dialog\QuickDrop\plugins"
2. Start LabVIEW 2010
3. Make sure that a Ctrl-Key combination is assigned to the i.vi (I used 'I' because the plugin was originally developped on LV2009 without the insert functions and updated with new LV2010 features)
4. Open the test-bench ("C:\Program Files\National Instruments\LabVIEW 2010\resource\dialog\QuickDrop\plugins\Insert IPE\test.vi")
5. Select any wires / wire branches
6. Execute Quick Drop ( Ctrl-Space-Ctrl-[Shift]-I )
7. Watch the IPEs being inserted.

Screenshots:

VI Snippet:

VI attached below

[vekkuli]

Very useful resource, thank you!

The insertion didn't work with object wires for me (LV2015 SP1 64bit). Having very little idea of what I was doing I took a look at the type descriptors and added a case 0x1E under the refnum 0x70, which did the trick for me. Does it make sense to you?

[AgentBK]

Great quick drop, great comment too! Unbundle and bundle for classes is a must!

Anyone knows how to add the functionality for maps?

[mpepe217]

To add map functionality: