@Fuller wrote:
Is there a way to change the default so it will always show up as orange on the Block Diagrams?
This may not quite be what you want because I’m assuming you're talking about the free label in the Strings palette. You can get an orange label by adding a new free label item to a palette a couple of ways:
A) Get the OpenG toolkit from
here. It has what is described below on one of its custom palettes and many other useful items; or
B) Make a new VI with nothing but a free label on its block diagram. Colour the background color of the label to what you want, set the font colour to what you want, etc etc.
- Give the VI a nice orange icon and save it with a name like OrangeLabel.vi to LabVIEW’s user.lib directory (Program Files\National Instruments\LabVIEW\user.lib)
- Go to the Functions palette and press the ‘Options’ button at the top right (useless it’s been moved).
- Choose ‘Edit Palettes’ on the Function Browser Options window that opens.
- Then left click on the User Libraries icon on the Functions palette and you’ll see OrangeLabel.vi’s icon.
- Right click on OrangeLabel.vi’s icon and select Merge VI from resulting popup menu (i.e. make sure there is a check mark beside it).
- Go to the ‘Edit Controls and Functions Palettes’ window which opened a couple of steps ago and click the ‘Save Changes’.
With the Merge VI option on, instead of the subVI itself being added, the subVI’s
contents are merged into the user's diagram and front panel. Since OrangeLabel.vi’s contents are limited to a free label with the desired format, that’s what you’ll get when you drag it onto your VI.
A variation of the above in terms of placement on the palettes is given in the KnowledgeBase item
How Can I Place the Block Diagram Code Snippets on a Palette?. Personally, I just like keeping my addons in user.lib
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