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Hassan_Atassi

LabVIEW version identification in windows task bar

Status: Duplicate Submitted by Active Participant on 10-15-2010 04:19 PM 3 Comment

If you have multiple version of LabVIEW opened, it is difficult to tell which version is which by looking an the windows task bar.  There should be some differentiation between versions for easy identification.

 

 

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safar

multipage tiff format

Status: Duplicate Submitted by Member on 10-07-2010 11:13 AM 2 Comment

i like that the function write image en tiff format sport a multipage imagen.so the read image sport to read the selected image numeber from tiff format.

 

 

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safar

array sort

Status: Duplicate Submitted by Member on 09-28-2010 06:11 AM 7 Comment

sport the direction of array sort incresing or decsrising 

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safar

Imagen multipaginas

Status: Duplicate Submitted by Member on 09-28-2010 04:16 AM 2 Comment

arLos imagines de formato tiff permite guardar varios imagines en LabVIEW no tenemos posibilidad de guardar  varios imagines en el mismo fichero tif ni leer los siguientes solo lee el primer imagen que encuentra en fichero,

quiero posibilidad de guardar y leer varios imagines en el mismo fichero tiff o cualquier formato estandar que permite varios imagines en el mismo fichero por ejemplo DCX,

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Rafa L

Making zoom to a Block Diagram

Status: Duplicate Submitted by Member on 09-22-2010 04:47 PM 1 Comment

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Many developers have to program on laptops that usually come with a limited screen. How if in Labview, we could use a zoom capability on block diagram. It could works fine also using the mouse scroll. Very usefull to little screens .

 

 

 

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Thoric

Parallelise the FPGA Compiler

Status: Duplicate Submitted by Trusted Enthusiast Trusted Enthusiast on 09-20-2010 10:05 AM 2 Comment

I don't know if this idea belongs in the "LabVIEW" Ideas Exchange necessarily, but this idea is something that would really make a big difference to my LabVIEW development, so I offer it anyway: "Parallelise the FPGA Compiler to take advantage of modern multi-core computing power".

 

The FPGA compiler takes approximately four hours to compile my large FPGA VIs, which makes for long and tiresome debugging processes. It's clear that the compiler uses only one core of my CPU when compiling. If the compiler could be written to take advantage of the many cores of today's multi-core computers, it could potentially reduce my compilation times to an eighth! (Where I work we have an eight-core number crunching server ideal for just this task, and I'm sure we'll get even greater core counts in the near future - thinking GPU here).

 

I know the compiler is probably the intellectual property and responsibility of Xilinx Corp, and not National Instruments, but I expect NI can give them a big push if we all asked nicely for it!

 

Thoric

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CarstenPXI

Link to Build Path from Project Explorer Build Status box

Status: Duplicate Submitted by Member on 09-15-2010 09:25 AM 6 Comment

When you make a build, Project Explorer concludes with a status box that tells you where the build "lives".  This box needs to have a button "open folder", or at least make the status text selectable to ease navigation to the Build folder.

 

Carsten Thomsen

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X.

Indexing array from the end

Status: Duplicate Submitted by Trusted Enthusiast on 09-12-2010 05:03 PM 4 Comment

For whatever reason, the end of an array is just as natural a location as its beginning. Go figure...

Hence it would be nice to have an index array function that could be started from the end (for instance with an "invert" indexing option accessible with a right-click).

At this point, one has to either flip over the array (time and memory costly) or clutter the diagram with a "Array Size" + "Minus One" (and more if one wants to access previous elements).

My 2 cts,

X.

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Anthony_L

Block Diagram Should Open if Holding the Key while Clicking a VI from in the Project Explorer Window

Status: Duplicate Submitted by Member on 09-06-2010 06:58 PM 2 Comment

On occasion one needs to open the source code for a closed VI. The Project explorer window appears to be a good access point for browing and opening VIs. However, clicking on the VIs opens the front panel only. It would be great to have the ability to open the block diagram if one holds the <CTL> key while clicking a VI on the project explorer window.

 

Anthony L

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Mustanghipo65

Allow zooming on the block diagram.

Status: Duplicate Submitted by Member on 09-01-2010 03:02 PM 3 Comment

I think it would be great to allow zooming out on a block diagram. I know we should make all attempts to code on the available window space without scrolling but it's not practical in some situations.

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GregFreeman

create enum type def from bd constant

Status: Duplicate Submitted by Trusted Enthusiast Trusted Enthusiast on 08-16-2010 06:21 PM 5 Comment

All the time I make type def enum's in order to use with a state machine. Most of the time I create the enum from the block diagram instead of the fp. Maybe I should change my habit but I wish there was a "create type def" option on the bd right click menu so I didnt have to change to control, switch to fp, customize, then change back to constant.

 

 

 

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jon_mcbee

Add "Auto Dispose Reference" and "Wait Until Done" to VI Properties

Status: Duplicate Submitted by Active Participant Active Participant on 08-13-2010 03:38 PM 6 Comment

Enable a Sub VI to launch as a daemon without having to open a reference to it using its path.  The VI Properties page would look like this:

 

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Wait until done would be checked by default, and auto dispose reference would be left false be default.  So instead of parsing the path to the VI on disk and using a method to run it:

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I just set the correct properties in the VI Properties page and drop the subVI on the block diagram of the calling VI.

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ASInc

Auto-indexing Tunnels and Multi-Dimensional Arrays

Status: Duplicate Submitted by Member on 08-05-2010 02:35 PM 9 Comment

In their current form, Auto-Indexing tunnels only operate on a single dimension of an array.  For example.  If you input a 2D array, through an auto indexing tunnel into a for loop, and display the resulting 1D array in an indicator inside the for loop as below, you will always get the last row.

 

I'd like to see a feature where you can right-click on the tunnel or something, and set it to auto-index by column, instead of by row, and get the last column instead.20773i86B483107F51CD3820775i651136B201680B64

 

It could be as simple as an option in the context menu for the auto-indexing tunnel to say "Index by rows" or "Index by columns"  It gets more complex with 3D 4D and moreD arrays, but you could do something like a submenu flyout that says "Index By Dimension" > "1", "2", "3" etc

 

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Matthias_H

Individual wire color for type definitions

Status: Duplicate Submitted by Member on 07-15-2010 05:46 AM 4 Comment

I often use strict type definitions to change data between SubVIs. The wires of the type definitions are always pink and this is sometimes a little color chaos.

Strings are pink, clusters are pink, ...

 

It would be nice to have the feature like in the LabVIEW classes. There you can definie the look of the private variables wire (form and color).

 

 

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slipstick

auto populate icon with text from vi name

Status: Duplicate Submitted by Member on 06-30-2010 03:39 PM 2 Comment

A lot of the vi icons I make only have text inside a box. It would be neat if the text could be inserted in the icon from the name of the vi, without me having to type it in. Of course you have to name the vi in such a way that it all fits in the icon.

 

Also, this function should be optional, so if you wanted to make a glitzy icon, you could, just as we can now.

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Fox_Mccloud

Array string search case insensitive

Status: Duplicate Submitted by Member on 06-24-2010 05:56 AM 3 Comment

Hello!

 

What I really would like to se implemented as a future feature is a 'Search 1D Array.vi' with the option to do a case insensitive search.

 

Usually I just plug a "to upper case" vi on both array and search string inputs. It would be nice to be able to select it right on the vi instead.

 

The functionality should work as with the case insensitive match in the case structure.

 

 

Cheers!

//Beckman

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rcpacini

Use Current Value If Unwired

Status: Duplicate Submitted by Member on 06-15-2010 02:27 PM 4 Comment

It would be beneficial if nodes had the ability to retain data from their previous execution. Along with "Use Default If Unwired" it would save memory allocation and coding time if there was a "Use Current Value If Unwired" selection which would retain the node's value and pass the last executed value. 

 

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This figure illustrates one application where "Use Current Value If Unwired" would save memory and increase performance instead of using multiple property nodes or local variables for retaining the output data. It would also eliminate extra wiring in every case this node is not used.

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David_L

Reinitialize stacked shift register.

Status: Duplicate Submitted by Active Participant on 04-22-2010 02:39 PM 6 Comment

I think there should be a way to reinitialize a stacked shift register to the originally initialized value so you can clear out the contents of every iteration all at once.  For example, the code below, implemented with 4 individual shift registers:

 

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Could be implemented with 1 stacked shift register with a reinitialize terminal:

 

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EricC.

Exclude some folder from VI Hierarchy

Status: Duplicate Submitted by Active Participant on 02-16-2010 04:06 AM 2 Comment
I use a number of file and libraries common to all my applications.
To lighten the display would be nice to exclude certain folder from VI Hierarchy
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Guruthilak

Using the "Strings" property of the Enum control/indicator for writing

Status: Duplicate Submitted by Active Participant on 01-01-2010 04:09 AM 3 Comment

Populating values to the "enum" control is not possible by using the "strings" property node and hence to populate a large data to a "enum" one has to create a "Ring" control use the "strings" property and replace that "ring" with the enum (or if you have enough time enter them manually) .

 

So why not use the "Strings" property of "Enum" to write values to it directly..See the image attached

 

 

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