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Include a "Polymorphic VI Selector" Style Menu with Configurable VIs

Status: New

Configurable VIs have one or more right-click options.  Some VIs document these options by changing the icon, such as In Range and Coerce and Write to Text File.

 

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However, VIs with smaller icons are less amenable to this approach.  Examples include many Comparison VIs (Comparison Mode) and Array to Cluster (Cluster Size).  Others have suggested adding a configure icon or more specifically making cluster size an input for Array to Cluster.  I'd like NI to include a "Polymorphic VI Selector" style menu with configurable VIs.

 

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This menu could be used to set an option and provide visual confirmation of the selection.  This display could also be hidden by deselecting in the Visible Items right-click menu.  I suspect much of the code needed to implement this idea is already in LabVIEW.