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When I am selecting front panel controls using the cursor to draw a selection window and my cursor goes past the edge of the window, the front panel scrolls. I absolutely detest this behavior. I suppose that once or twice in the last 20 years, that may have been useful, but the vast majority of the time it just screws up the front panel and I have to waste my time getting it scrolled back where it is supposed to be. I have looked at Tools>Options... and File>VI Properties, as well as searching the internet and this forum, but have not found a way to shut it off. Is there a way?
For specific VIs you can right-click on the scrollbars and turn them to "Always Off" which seems to disable the scrolling ability entirely. For front panels which will be visible to the user I have seen people write simple functions to just set the owning VI's panel position to the origin (I think TLB' templates do this)
I'd hate to shut off the scroll bars; I do use them some time. It's not that I never want to move the front panel, I just want it to happen only when I make it happen. I have seen where someone put a disabled control at the origin, so double clicking on it in the block diagram moves the panel back (assuming the control was off screen), but I hadn't seen a function. Can you point me to one?
I attached the LabVIEW 2017 version of what the TLB' template uses. I didn't find one already online but it shouldn't be too difficult to take the code here and put it in a quick drop shortcut.
the Open G TK has the classic Fit FP to largest decoration.vi and is a common way to get around unintentional edits to the FP size. And the decoration CAN be transparent (I-d personally only set it Transparent when App.Kind was not "Development"
