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Dataflow_G

Provide a tooltip for Recent Project entries to see project path

Status: New

If there are multiple projects with the same name listed in the Recent Projects list, there's no way to determine which is which:

 

recent_project_tooltip.png

 

The idea is to display a tooltip showing the full path of the project when hovering over an entry.

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crossrulz
Knight of NI

There is a tool tip in the list on the Getting Started Window.  But I can't say I have ever seen a tool tip for a menu item in any application.


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JÞB
Knight of NI

Yes, the Getting Started Window ( menu, edit, show GSW) has that!  Any text editor  can open your LabVIEW.INI. 

 

But, why do you have multiple projects with the same name?  SCC.


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wiebe@CARYA
Knight of NI

>But, why do you have multiple projects with the same name?  SCC.

 

Comparing branches\revisions simultaneously. Doesn't happen that often, but it happens.

Dataflow_G
Member

> But I can't say I have ever seen a tool tip for a menu item in any application.

I've seen it in Inkscape, which is the inspiration for this idea:

recent_project_inkscape.png

 

> Comparing branches\revisions simultaneously. Doesn't happen that often, but it happens.

This was my use case. I had also saved the project for a previous version, which was then opened for a quick sanity check. This led to three visually identical project listings in Recent Projects.

wiebe@CARYA
Knight of NI

I'll kudo it.

 

But if it is implemented, I want it for "Recent files" too.

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I think it will appear in the "Recent files" menu more often, as I often edit VIs with the same name, for instance when implementing a method in all children of a class. Then the VI name doesn't mean anything, without the class name. And the class name will get replaced by "…".
Recent Files Tipstrip.png