LabVIEW Idea Exchange

It would be nice to have bookmarks (possibly based within the project) so that you could quickly jump to certain areas of your code that has to be modified or reviewed frequently.  Obviously, things like state machines are self documenting, but it would still be great if you could quick jump to certain areas.  Being project based, you could also jump to any bookmark in a subvi.

How about retaining the undo history after a VI has been saved? 

I have noticed in some places in the LabVIEW IDE that the selected attribute is not properly highlighted. A perfect example is Cursor Attributes on a Waveform Graph:

The currently selected Point Style and Cursor Style Attributes are highlighted with a blue box, but the Line Style and Line Width are not highlighted with the current values. This is important to know, because it is difficult to tell the difference in line widths, and could even be impossible if the cursor is off the screen.

I can only find these two places right now that the current selection is not highlighted, but once I find more I'll post in the comments.

The thumb tack in the palette is handy. But it disappears when we right click a node to find the corresponding palette.

So there has to be extra steps when I want to find more relevant nodes. What I really want is adding the thumb tack to it as in the normal palette, like:

Thank you.

Best wishes,

Bo

When designing larger user interfaces often times my event structure ends up with many cases sorted in no real order. Commonly there are multiple controls that trigger the same event case. It is cumbersome to try and find the particular event case where a control is handled.

What I would like to see is a Find -> Event in the shortcut menu for a control. We can currently search for the front panel control, local variables and property nodes if used. It seems logical that events should be included in that list as well.

Currently, if you want to enter in multiple elements in an array, you have to click on the empty element before typing.  It would be more effecient to be able to press tab to enter another element in that array.

When creating complex UIs with a lot of controls on the front panel, it is difficult to find the control we're trying to associate an event with from the Edit Events dialog, as controls are not sorted alphabetically. It seems they are sorted in the order we create them. Sorting them alphabetically would improve our efficiency as it takes more and more time to find the control as rthe UI grows.

I suggest having a feature that would allow us to add "virtual" error terminals to any VI by right-clicking any VI and selecting "Add Virtual Error Terminals...". These virtual terminals would do nothing more than act as pass-through tunnels to facilitate data flow. This would allow us to minimize the use of sequence structures:

Many of us would have experienced situation where we would like to have listbox indicator or control as opposed to using array of cluster. For eg.

This is achieveable with the help of array of clusters containing different control.

To some extent dropdown menus can be implemented in listbox, but with with large and complex codes with property nodes.

It would be great to have listbox control / indicator which would be simple to use like cluster element; as in below.

Such a listbox element is very useful in product testing application.

In LabVIEW if I want to use a property/method of a control I have to right click and select property. Same for second control I want to use same property I have to do same operation again. My idea is if we select all the controls and right click, some common property like value, visible and etc..... Should display and by selection it generate automatically. This can reduce my application development time.

So if this key feature is there in LabVIEW we can select multiple controls or properties and perform some basic operations to reduce our application development timing.

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Himanshu Goyal | LabVIEW Engineer- Power System Automation
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