LabVIEW Idea Exchange
One of the cool new features in Windows 7 is the Jump List, which can provide application-specific shortcuts by right-clicking the icon in the taskbar. Some applications provide basic Jump List functionality. For example, LabVIEW provides a recent files list, which inherently supports "pinning" items so they appear permanently in the list, like so:
This is definitely a good start, but check out the jump list for Google Chrome:
They provide Jump Lists for most visited sites, recently closed webpages, and creating new Chrome windows. I think we should figure out some cool LabVIEW-specific stuff to add to LabVIEW's Jump List. Among the ideas I've had are:
- New VI
- New Project
- Bring Project(s) to Front
- Most Opened VIs (different from Most Recent)
- Fix the Jump List to show VIs that were opened within LLBs (as opposed to the current behavior of just listing the containing LLBs)
Obviously we don't want to clutter up the Jump List, so we'd want to make sure whatever we add will be generally useful to all LabVIEW programmers. List any ideas you have for helpful, commonly-used LabVIEW-specific Jump List tasks in the comments below.
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