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Muri777

Make the context help dynamically update with quickdrop

Submitted by Member on ‎07-16-2019 01:24 AM 11 Comments (11 New)
Status: Duplicate

Duplicate of https://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Context-Help-and-Quick-Drop/idi-p/942809

Currently, when you use context help and hover over a VI it shows terminals and a little snippet of what it does. I use this a lot. When using quick drop though, the context help doesnt dynamically change to each item selected or hovered over with the mouse. Its like this currently

 

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I would like to see it so that when I hover over an item in the quick drop, the help page updates so I can read it without having to drop it onto my back panel, read, then delete and try again. Like this

 

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crossrulz
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‎09-08-2020 05:37 AM
‎09-08-2020 05:37 AM

Muri777, follow the link in the post stating this is a duplicate.  You will see there that this idea was implemented in LabVIEW 2020.

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