Links for topics presented in the user group presentation on 22/9/2014

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I'm putting a list of links here to provide a starting point for most of the points I discussed in the presentation. If any of the topics interest you more, you should search to find more material:

1. Switcheroo
2. Connector pane switcheroo -
3. Quick reference card. The card can be found in <LabVIEW>\manuals\LV_Quick_Reference.pdf 
   Examples of shortcuts from the card:
   1. Press space when wiring to change the wire route
   2. Display tools palette anywhere – shift + right click
   3. Ctrl+scroll in multi-frame structures to cycle through frames
4. Error list – the VIs with actual errors are on top and have red Xs next to them.
5. Place VI contents (Merge VIs)
   1. More.
6. Snippets
   1. Code Capture Tool
   2. Note that the built-in snippets create problems if you use them on property nodes connected to controls or on controls with events. This problem doesn't happen with the CCT.
7. Drag types into references to change the ref type. Right click on the reference to show the control -
8. Drag VIs from explorer
9. Context help for wire data type
10. Ctrl+enter to set string constant size
    1. Related idea
11. Quick Drop keyboard shortcuts
12. LabVIEW speak
13. Scripting springboard
14. Project provider
    1. Example
15. Custom and conditional probes
    1. History probes
16. VI task manager from LAVA
17. Numeric display format
18. Jack Dunaway's events presentation -
    1. Video
    2. Code
19. Call class property VIs from DVR
20. Variant attributes
21. Variant data type VIs
22. Xcontrols –
    1. http://www.ni.com/webcast/2304/en/
    2. http://lavag.org/files/file/39-multi-column-listbox-xcontrol/
    3. http://lavag.org/files/category/16-x-controls/
23. XNodes – WARNING – It's important to note that XNodes are not finished, they could cause problems, and they will probably be replaced by something else at some point in the future. You can use them, but be aware of these issues.
    1. Error ring constant – in the palettes.
    2. Math XNode
    3. Explanation and some links on how to start
24. Shift+enter to add case to a structure, Ctrl+Shift+Enter to duplicate current case
25. Different icons for different versions

You can find videos of many presentations from the last few years over here, with instructions on how to download them -

http://lavag.org/topic/16091-ni-week-2012-videos/

The videos from the CLA summit are generally at a high level, because the CLA summit is only for people who know LabVIEW and architecture well.

These are links to some ideas from the Idea Exchange. If there are other things you think of, you can search for them and add them if they're not there:

1. http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/LabVIEW-for-Raspberry-Pi/idi-p/2082026
2. http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Get-rid-of-the-quot-no-error-quot-part-of-the-error-cl...
3. http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Flat-controls-indicators-and-containers/idi-p/919361
4. http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Option-to-Show-Hide-the-Iteration-and-Count-Terminals-...
5. http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/We-need-to-uncouple-the-quot-edit-mode-quot-FP-size-fr...
6. http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Support-Unicode/idi-p/921449
7. http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Use-a-terminal-block-to-access-the-for-loop-s-data/idi...
8. http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Numeric-control-limits-should-default-to-quot-Coerce-q...
9. http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Show-the-default-value-of-controls-in-subVIs-which-are...
10. http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Supercharge-Quick-Drop-Turn-QD-keyboard-shortcuts-into...
11. http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Add-an-easily-accessible-way-to-close-an-application/i...
12. http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Add-Intellisense-support-to-the-property-node/idi-p/15...
13. http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Allow-clusters-to-have-quot-pages-quot/idi-p/1481862

I'm attaching a couple of controls. One is the multicolumn listbox shown in the presentation with an example of how to use it. The second is a listbox which is similar to the standard listbox, but has color for the symbols and some additional symbols.