Ctrl + double-click a Type Def to open the type definition

[Dataflow_G]

In the spirit of Ctrl + double-clicking a subVI to open it straight to the block diagram, Ctrl + double-clicking a type def control / constant / indicator should open the type definition. Just a bit quicker and more convenient than right-click -> Open Type Def.

[thols]

Of course it should be like this. Makes sense.

I think it should be the same even if it is not a TypeDef -> the control editor opens. And normal dbl-click should navigate to the Control/terminal on the BD/FP.

[AristosQueue (NI)]

Like this idea. But the amendment:

"I think it should be the same even if it is not a TypeDef -> the control editor opens."

would be something I would want quickly disabled. *Maybe* I could get behind it if it immediately did what popup item "Make Typedef" does. Easily creating non-typedef'd controls contradicts the ooch toward more well-defined types that LV has been working toward for the last decade, in my view.

[wiebe@CARYA]

Sometimes I have to customize a control just to set the decal of a Boolean, or to replace a decoration in a graph or picture control. (The 3 pixel border of the picture control is really annoying when you fit it to a pane.) That doesn't call for a type def...

[AristosQueue (NI)]

wiebe: Sure. And for those cases, you can right-click and customize the control.

[tst]

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@AristosQueue wrote:

But the amendment:

"I think it should be the same even if it is not a TypeDef -> the control editor opens."

would be something I would want quickly disabled

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Ironically, this is the feature that already exists - the options dialog has an Open the control editor with double-click option in the front panel section. I don't believe there's a parallel option for the BD.

I doubt most people would set the existing option even if they were aware of it, because I expect going to the BD is more useful in the vast majority of cases.

Edit - just to clarify, the existing feature uses double click for going to the typedef. The feature suggested in the earlier comment was for Ctrl+double click to go to the typedef.

[Darren]

This functionality is already available with the following setting:

Tools > Options > Front Panel > Open the control editor with double-click

This works on both the front panel and the block diagram. Note that when you're using the Auto Tool, the double-click must happen on the edge of the control/indicator/constant.

[thols]

I don't agree that it is already implemented. But perhaps I'm interpreting the OP incorrectly. The request was to open using "Ctrl + double-clicking a type". Most of the times you want to navigate to the BD/FP for the dbl-clicked control but occasionally you want to open the typedef. Therefore it would make sense to make Ctrl + double-click open the typedef. I have through the years sometimes tried to have the option Darren mentions active but always end up turning it off since I unintentionally open the TypeDef too often.

[Dataflow_G]

Thanks Thols, that summarizes the idea perfectly well. I tried the option mentioned by tst and while it replicates the spirit of the idea, I don't want to forego the find control/terminal double-click functionality. So while it is technically already implemented, it would be nice to be able to have both open control editor and find control/terminal functions accessible at once via (ctrl +) double-click.