Customize All Windows dialog?

[TeraTech]

I've been looking through right-click framework and project providers. Can either one of these allow you to customize the "All Windows" dialog located under the Windows pull-down?

[Darren]

That is not a VI-based dialog, so there is currently no way to customize it.

Sorry I keep being the bearer of bad news... 😛

[softball]

Hi

I don't know if this new thread were inspired by another recent thread, where I suggested that the 'All Windows' dialog could need some polishing to help eliminating the LabVIEW habit of popping up windows :

https://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/Prevent-restoring-minimized-Labview-windows-when-opening-another/td...

There were other solutions to the windows pop-up problem.

But I still think that the 'All Windows' dialog could be a great place to actually manage multiple pairs of Front Panel and Block Diagram windows in a sensible way. Odd that it has never seen attention.

Regards

[TeraTech]

Thanks for the link interesting discussion.

No, my question was not inspired by the other thread per se, but was born by a similar frustration/need and wanting to tinker with some LV customization. I'll post my thoughts on Idea Exchange.

[zou]

I created a VI to mimic All Windows.

find the missing VI at:

https://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/How-to-run-an-exe-as-a-window-inside-a-VI/m-p/4096356/highlight/tru...

[TeraTech]

@Zou, Thanks. I let it load by ignoring the missing VIs. Nice but still doesn't have the functionality I'm looking for.

[zou]

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@TeraTech wrote:

@Zou, Thanks. I let it load by ignoring the missing VIs. Nice but still doesn't have the functionality I'm looking for.

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What functionality are you looking for?

[TeraTech]

@Zou, I couldn't get your utility to work. All of the VIs listed in the Title column on your front panel have the last letter truncated, which was apparently causing problems. I added the increment function in the Get Window Name.vi as indicated by the red arrow in the screen snapshot below. That seemed to fix it.

[zou]

Thanks for fixing the VI.

I did find out the bug.  I meant to include this VI in my post, but I picked a wrong VI.

[TeraTech]

No problem.

The feature I was looking for was minimize all windows for the current project.

It would have made a great addition to the All Windows dialog but apparently it's not customizable. Also, I was hoping to achieve it with only VI scripting but the Block Diagram.State property is read only ☹️. Hopefully @Darren  is still listening 🙂

I've achieved my desired feature by adding a Minimize button and calling user32.dll:ShowWindow function.