Different Icons for FP / BD / Project windows / ... in windows taskbar

[JensG69]

It would be nice, if the different kind of LabVIEW windows would have slighty different icons within the windows taskbar. It would be easier to quickly identify BD / FP / project / Ctrl / etc. windows in the taskbar.

This suggestion has also been made at

http://www.labviewforum.de/unterschiedliche-Symbole-fuer-Frontpanel-und-Blockdiagramm-in-der-Tasklei...

Here you can find two suggestions for FP & BD-icons.

[DailyDose]

I understand. I'm sure we all understand the difficulties of ideas and things we want vs resource allocation and the corporate politics.  But speaking as a customer...having 20 FPs, BDs, CTRLs open under the same taskbar icon really is annoying.  I understand this doesn't necessarily improve our ability to write code or give us more options to communicate with various devices, but every once in a while, those irritations that we've grown to love to hate, would be nice to see them just disappear one day.  😄

[AristosQueue (NI)]

No question -- I agree with you on the annoyance.

There's something in the pipeline that should help this idea. I'm not sure if it will be demo'd at NIWeek 2015 or not; NIWeek 2016 definitely.

[AristosQueue (NI)]

When reviewing which ideas from the Exchange to implement for LabVIEW 2019 and 2020, we determined that, although this appears to be a relatively easy feature to implement, there are enough other higher priorities that we are unlikely to ever tackle this idea. LabVIEW NXG has addressed this issue with an entirely different approach to window management -- i.e., keeping all the VIs within the single application in the multiple-tab development style. We wish we had the bandwidth to follow up on every good idea.

[Darren]

National Instruments will not be implementing this idea. See the idea discussion thread for more information.