LabVIEW Idea Exchange

Provide Merge and Diff Tool for Projects(.lvproj) and libraries (.lvlib,.lvclass,.xctl) to be able to identify all missing file from other revision and merge or Diff Build specification.

How did a program made for engineers and scientists make it 20+ years and not allow for subscripts and superscripts to be displayed. 

E=MC2 is really not all that powerful.

Are there no chemistry math or physics applications developed.

 

One nice method for implementing this is to add an additional mode to string display called markup bhere simple tags could be added around characters to alter their appearance much like is done in HTML.

  

For as long as I can remember (I have used LabView since 4.0) the decorations and contropls pallette have remained unchanges for the most part.  End users want an application more like the iPhone than windows98.  We need a new decorations capability to be able to customize controls  to a high level.  The square circle and triangle of 2 colors and flat or 3d/rounded nolonger cuts it.  I would like to see a new type of decoration.

 

- Decoration made of vector graphics so it is scalable, user can add or remove verticies and move them around to make new shapes.

- Labview native color pallet linked to item colors (default can be 2 color option of FG, BG but scale this to an array of colors to make more complex decorations)

- Colors add transparancy and alpha channel

- Grouping allows building of a single new decoration from several  primitive shapes.

- Decoration possible support gradients (color blending)

*** Decorations should have optional labels so that they can be addressed programatically

-Decorations added to customized controls that have lables associated with them become part of the control and can be accessed via a property (ie can be set to not visible through a property node)

 

I know this is asking quite alot, but I have found that when I make my applications not look like LabView (and it is easy to spot a LabView application) it is not a well recieved as when I present a highly customized application that does not look like a labview example.  Allowing the community to easily create very professional looking new controls and indicators will do wonders for our GUIs.

 

 

I cannot tell you how much time I spend changing the appearance, properties, connector pane, etc, etc. every time I "create a SubVI".  I try to always use the same connector pattern, error in and error out, error case structure on BD, and even a common icon appearance within a project.  It would save hours over the course of a project if I could set up a template that would be used BY DEFAULT for "create SubVI".  Also, allow me to set that template as the default for "New VI".  Save me the step of File - New - From Template - choose it.  If I go File - New VI, I want to see my default template.  Anyone who has used AutoCAD (2D) in the past will be familiar with this.  One could create a blank drawing and save it as 'acad.dwg' in the AutoCAD program directory and AutoCAD used this as the default drawing template.

In View VI Hierarchy we can right click and ‘Find all Instances’ to get a dialog box similar to the Error dialog box.  From there we can right click different instances of the VI to be taken to them on the BD.  Why then does Project Explorer only allow us to Find – Callers or SubVIs?  Add Find – All Instances to that menu as well.