Grouping or tagging controls and indicators

[DanSome]

It would be great to have some means of creating groups of controls that could be addressed en masse or at least displayed as a tree, by group. For example, all the controls on one tab could be in their own group. Then, the pop-up list of all available controls that appears when you want to 'Select Item' for a local variable would not be one long list, but would be organized as a tree; each branch would be the controls from one tab page. Same for the Event Case dialog.

thank you, NI and the entire development community!

Dan

[labview4steve]

The very least should be for LabVIEW to sort them ALL alphabetically rather than just some alphabetically - there is already some sorting - but you can't tell at a glance whether they are inputs or outputs etc...and its a major pain to sort through hundreds of local variables

[crossrulz]

You shouldn't be using locals anyways except for very specific reasons.  Sounds like you should look into new architectures.

[smercurio_fc]

If this is meant for local variables, then I agree with crossrulz. Any situation where you find that you need this is indicative of a problem with the architecture, not with the IDE. If it is meant for other uses, then I'm not seeing where this can be used. Please clarify.

[DanSome]

Maybe I'm just a cranky old-timer (17 years of LabView!) but I like my architecture, local variables, global variables and all - and I've got good reasons. But it's not just those that would benefit from grouping. My biggest peeve right now is the Edit Event Case dialog, when you have a couple hundred controls in the list and have to scroll through all of them to find the one you want to edit. A grouped/tree structure (with alphabetization to boot!) would make it very easy to navigate by collapsing irrelevant groups. Additional possible uses:

searching for all members of a group on BD or FP

setting common properties

[your ideas here]

Dan

[tst]

Personally, for the event structure dialog, I would prefer a filter control, which would allow us to show only the controls that match a particular string, but I believe this should already be in one of the other ideas, at least as a comment.

[Darren]

Any idea that has received less than 2 kudos within 2 years after posting will be automatically declined.