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LabVIEW 2023 Q1 - New VI for Override does not adopt the icon of the parent method VI

Hello, 

I have recently started using LV2023 Q1. I write my programmers purely with the Actor Framework, and in this regard, I have noticed that LabVIEW no longer takes the icon from the parent methods of the VIs for Overrides from the Actor Framework. Even self-written methods that I overwrite in the child class no longer adopt the icon.
Is this a bug or a new feature?
Is there any way to change this?
Generating a new icon for an overridden VI every time is very time-consuming, especially if you only work with actors like I do and often overwrite the same VIs.

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Hi Apriori

Seems like a bug. You can Report a Bug by following this link to help them improve this kind of problems. 

 


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Any feedback from NI on this? I'm in the same boat. Its so annoying... 

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must be a bug... this page just created a month ago mentions the automatic icon creation and no mention of being able to turn it on or off. 

https://www.ni.com/docs/en-US/bundle/labview/page/lvdialog/new_override_db.html

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Not sure if a bug report was filed or not, so I have created one as well just in case. Report number 02144269.

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Hello, 

 

I contacted NI and only got a response from them last week:

we have created bug case 2350519 to resolve this issue. I have received confirmation from RnD that there is currently no suitable workaround for the version that presents this problem.

In this regard, please expect a workaround for this issue in the upcoming release of LabVIEW or the upcoming patch for the reported version.

 

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thanks for update.

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Barring catastrophe, this bug should be fixed in LabVIEW 2023 Q3.

I don't have a workaround for the bug, but I do have a procedure that's been helping me fix the override VI icons quickly when the bug occurs. This procedure assumes you use mostly text-based icons on your method VIs. Let's say this is the parent icon:

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Due to the bug, when I create a new override of this method in a child class, I get this:

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Now here's where Quick Drop comes in. Press Ctrl-Space, type 'from action str' in Quick Drop, then press Ctrl-K:
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The Ctrl-K Quick Drop shortcut will assign a text-based icon to the VI based on what you typed:

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This feature was first introduced in LabVIEW 2020, and I use it all the time, but I've been using it even more all the time in LabVIEW 2023 Q1.

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if it is not a text icon, another trick is to drop the one with the correct icon on a block diagram, highlight the VI then Ctl+C, then open the icon editor for the one that is missing its icon and ctl+V. 

In general that works. Not sure how it plays with class banners, so YMMV.


Sam Taggart
CLA, CPI, CTD, LabVIEW Champion
DQMH Trusted Advisor
Read about my thoughts on Software Development at sasworkshops.com/blog
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I have a feeling you can drop an icon from one vi onto the icon of another vi and it imports it, so there might be a quick way there to recover the missing icon info. Maybe worth a look (I'm not able to test this right now).

Thoric (CLA, CLED, CTD and LabVIEW Champion)


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