Shortcuts?

[Kenneth.Miller]

All,

      I'm a very keyboard oriented person, if I can use a program without ever touching the mouse then I will. I realise this is not the way labview is built but I was just curious if there wasn't a way to speed things up. For example, I'd like to be able to create a local variable by holding down a key combination and clicking on the control/indicator, is this possible? I'm interested in finding out other ways of speeding up my programming time. Srolling through menu after menu can really slow me down.

Regards,
Ken

[TiTou]

Hmmm.. I don't know how to do that but it reminds me a funny thread, please have a look at it !

Message Edité par TiTou le 10-05-2006 06:33 PM

[smercurio_fc]

You may want to take a look at third-party solutions like those that create keyboard/mouse macros. Something like AutoIt or AutoHotKey.

[altenbach]

LabVIEW won't be that easy without any mouse, but since you talk about "clicking" on things, I assume you still have a mouse. 😉

Once you have one local variable, you can make more instances by "ctrl+drag" it to a new location.

Local variables should be used sparingly, so if 80% of your coding time is wasted creating locals, maybe you should have a long and hard look at your programming style. 😄

(See e.g.: http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&message.id=112401#M112401)

Message Edited by altenbach on 10-05-2006 10:21 AM

[Kenneth.Miller]

I only use local variables where appropriate. I write very large labview applications for my company and they sometimes have very deep and complex execution structures that require the use of local variables.

Regards,
Ken