LabVIEW Idea Exchange

Use case:

I have multiple (sub)vi's open or in memory with "Retain Wire Values" enabled, because I don't know in advance which wires I need to probe.

Initial State: 
If I probe any wire now, they will all show "Not Executed".

First Execution:

After I have run my code, these (sub)vi's will show their values as promised and the parts of the code that have not been executed will display "Not Executed". 

Now I have learned from my first execution and I made some changes in my code.

Second Execution:

If I would run for the second time now, I'll expect that my code will behave differently. This can mean that some code that did run in the First Execution did not run in the Second Execution and therefore would retain the wire values from the first run. In such a case I am not able to tell if a wire value is from the Second Run or from a First Run and actually "Not Executed" in the Second Run.

Normally, I will Disable and then Enable the "Retain Wire Values" option to clear the wire values, but this can be quite a hustle if you have a lot of vi's with this function enabled.

My wish:

I would like to have some kind of "Clear all retained wires" button or something that put all my vi's in memory with "Retain Wire Values" enabled in the Inital State, so they will all show "Not Executed" when probed.

This seems a simple and effective solution to me.

Well as the title says...

In the string constant you are able to make a scrollbar visible but this is still inconvenient when only see 2 lines of your whole string when you have a string constant of 50 lines or so... and you 9 out 10 times you don't want to create a bigger field because it messes with your diagram.

Therefore a small popup with a only a large textfield would grately simplify things.

I came up with this idea when I was writing a error message and there wasn't much space to type the string in, I also had this, http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Need-Edit-Window-for-New-Cluster-Constants/idi-p/1208295, idea in my backhead.

What do you guys think?

Currently, the only native way to display a JPEG in memory on a 2D picture control in LabVIEW is to

1. save to disk
2. read from disk
3. display

See: 

This is not only silly, but slow: on a reasonable fast machine with an SSD, this takes almost a second!

A simple request: A VI that can go straight from JPEG binary data (other formats would be nice) to a 2D picture control. This is very useful for applications that download images from a server - a pretty common thing to do.

If I'm the first to post this Idea then I'll be shocked.

The Idea is simple. We all love programming in LabVIEW, and I'm sure that we've all at one time or another had a colleague, friend or family member ask if we know how to do something on the PC. The immediate thought is I don't know where to get the software to do that, but I could write a simple LabVIEW app  in a few hours that does the job.

E.G hunt through someone's PC and move all of the jpg files over a certain size to a specific location so they can easily find their holiday snaps.

You can't create this simple function for them, because if you do, and build an exe, they still need the Runtime engine.

Surely for REALLY simple stuff (File IO, basic comms stuff in the Base LabVIEW edition ...) - not DAQ or anything like that it is possible to create an EXE that INCLUDES the runtime components that it needs and is stand alone.

This would open up LabVIEW for the use of making quick gadget like apps for the office as well as test and measurement.

I can't se how this could be a bad thing.

Sometimes I want to insert a unconnected Sub VI on my panel into a some wire. I always end up deleting and reconnecting the wires to insert my Sub VI.

I miss a solution to quick insert a VI into a wire without deleting and reconnecting the wires.

I know we already have the option to use the QuickDrop with ctrl+I, but I miss a solution to insert a VI (that already exists on my panel) into a existing wire.

What about clicking on the wire and draging the Sub VI while pressing crtl+i?

a trueselect function, more powerfull