LabVIEW Idea Exchange

Sometimes you need to change the name of the library (class) or you need to change dependent library (class) and everything becomes broken. It is really painful to replace broken subVIs one by one. I wish "search and replace" functionality is available for these broken subVIs.

Format Into String can become very complicated when you have multiple inputs. I think implementing it in a way similar to the Formula Node could make it much better.

Ideally,

1. naming of the inputs should be allowed
2. the input fields in the string should be color highlighted
3. when hovering or clicking over any of the input or the format string fields, the matching ones should be highlighted in bold or with different background for example.

As a side note, the Formula Node itself could also benefit from the same color and hover highlighting.

I haven't tried yet, but this might be already possible by generating C code and then building a Python package from that. It would be nice to have that automated.

I think there's also a commercial potential to sell Vision Assistant as a separate product (to Python developers).

I think it would be very useful to have the create DVR, change to DVR and change from DVR shortcuts on the menu.

I already did some of this, but it shall be a built in functionality.

I also encountered a bug in the change from DVR for controls and I couldn't work them around yet. To be exact, when a control is moved out of a DVR using scripting it becomes locked and the label is made invisible. The same is not true for the same operation on the UI. The only workaround I found was to replace the created control with one of the same style. The new problem is, that enums and rings that aren't typedefs loose their item lists. Of course this could be worked around too, but there might be other types I haven't tried yet.

To begin with, this is very likely a corner case, I don't expect this to get ever implemented, but the VIs are password protected which makes customizing them difficult.

When a project with a lot of VIs is open in a LabVIEW instance the Quick Drop loads for ~2 seconds, which is more then enough for me to press the shortcut combination too, leading to another pop-up windows to appear (like find window for Ctrl+F).

I wish this would be options, i.e. another option on the customization panel, or an option inside the project file/library which might be used less frequently.

Provide a new command line option to open the VI specified on the command line automatically minimized (/MIN) or hidden, i.e. just in memory (/MEM). When I want to research something in a project, I open many top-level VIs from the command line which takes a considerable amount of time. While they are loading I should be able to work on something else but LabVIEW keeps opening the windows on top of all other applications. Neither cmd.exe's start /MIN a.vi nor start /MIN LabVIEW.exe a.vi minimizes it. See current arguments here: https://www.ni.com/docs/en-US/bundle/labview/page/lvhowto/lv_defined_args.html

Consider that a related idea had 334 kudos but was declined for NI-convenience. If LabVIEW did that this wouldn't be needed: "Don't force all LabVIEW windows to the top when one is selected" - https://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Don-t-force-all-LabVIEW-windows-to-the-top-when-one-is-selected/idi-p/2546089