Easy change from Propery Node to Invoke Node

[nottilie]

Dear community and developers

I would have the suggestion to add a simple context menu enty on property nodes and on invoke nodes.

Just add in invoke nodes the menu entry (Change to property node) and

on property nodes add an etry (Change to invoke node).

I often have to change this and this would help to improve the work flow for me.

Gernot Hanel

IONICON Analytik Gesellschaft m.b.H.

www.ionicon.com

[fabric]

Yes! Excellent idea.

(Good candidate for a shortcut menu plugin)

[fabric]

Ok - I anyway needed some practice writing plugins...

Do these satisfy your idea?

• Property Node to Invoke Node:  https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-44249
• Invoke Node to Property Node:  https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-44250

[Darren]

Don't forget about using Quick Drop to accelerate editor tasks like this. I do a lot of VI Server programming, so I need this replace operation all the time (sometimes on multiple nodes at once). Here's how I do it:

Select Property Node(s) -> Ctrl-Space -> 'nv' -> Ctrl-P

'nv' is my object shortcut for Invoke Node. Ctrl-P is the keyboard shortcut for Replace.  The same approach works for replacing Invoke Nodes with Property Nodes, just with 'rn', which is my object shortcut for Property Node.

[bienieck]

I also use Darrens approach and recommend this for You nottile 😉

BTW it will be cool to have this QD "aliases" by default in LV. This way it could become some kind of standard.

Aliases list can be found here: https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-8344

[Darren]

bienieck, I am planning on shipping a set of default object shortcuts in LabVIEW 2016. Check out the discussion here:

https://decibel.ni.com/content/message/115479

[nottilie]

Thank you for the quick drop and replace approach.

I also use this option but never had the idea to use it in this context.

I also will check out the menu plugin.