Re-opening because LabVIEW NXG has been discontinued.
Currently (in LabVIEW 2010), you can add labels to wires. Hurray!!
But it's painful. Boooo!
Curently => Right-Click wire, navigate to sub-menu of Show>>Label
It should be as easy as adding free text to block diagrams or front panels. For example: If your auto-tool is on then just double-click on freespace to add text.
So we should make it just as easy to add labels to wires:
Step 1: Single-Select Wire
Step 2: Start Typing
Step 3: Profits!
We don't need no stinkin' right-click menus.
PS: I am proposing a single click on the wire instead of double-click because that performs a different action.
[...] We don't need no stinkin' right-click menus. [...]
Bite your tongue!
Jim You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are. ~ Alice For he does not know what will happen; So who can tell him when it will occur? Eccl. 8:7
I also would like to be able to add more labels to wires where they split, not just where a more is. For instance, I on my latest RT program I have a cluster of queue references going to all 7 loops. It is initialized outside the loops and split to all of them. Id like to put a label on the wire right before it enters each loop but, alas, cannot.
This is a good idea and they do have some other bugs to work out with their wire labels. I was moving a large chunk of code across the block diagram. Afterwards I would try to save and it crashed LV every time I did this. I sent the code in to NI and this was their response:
"It has been discovered that wire labels have some ill effects in Labview at the moment when dealing with large vi's.
Again this is a known issue that is scheduled to be fixed in later releases of the software."
Re-opening because LabVIEW NXG has been discontinued.