quick drop does not work for me

[warren_scott]

I can't get quick-drop to work.

I support software that needs to work in a multi-lingual environment, which means that some of the strings on the front panel of LabVIEW UI that I am writing need to be in Chinese.  So I followed the instructions here

http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/91A1863834F4B1A0862575670067D15C

to allow other language characters to show up in LabVIEW.

Now when I press Ctl-Space in LabVIEW to bring up quick-drop, nothing happens in LV, but my language selector changes from EN to CN

How do I get quickdrop back???  (without removing my multi-lingual environment) 

LabVIEW 2011 32bit, Win7 64bit system.

[SteveChandler]

You can go to tools/options and change the key combination that activates quickdrop to something else. It's in the "view" section of the tree.

[Darren]

Try Ctrl-Shift-Space...I remember when we first added Quick Drop that there was something having to do with Ctrl-Space not being compatible with some Chinese configurations due to the Ctrl-Space shortcut already being used for something...so we have some condition having to do with Chinese settings where Quick Drop is launched with Ctrl-Shift-Space instead.

If that doesn't do it, I'm not sure what the problem could be...

[warren_scott]

Ctl+Shift+Space doesn't work

I managed to dig into the language settings for windows on the language bar, and under Advanced key settings the Ctl+space was reserved for changing to chinese keyboard.  For some reason the "disable this key sequence" does not work (it kept defaulting back to enabling ctl+space), but I could change that key sequence to something obscure.  This let ctl+space work properly for quickdrop, which works better for me since it keeps my LV shortcuts the same as other systems. 

[Darren]

Thanks for posting the workaround you figured out.  I'm guessing that the Ctrl-Shift-Space thing is hard-coded for Chinese OSes...it sounds like you've got an English OS, but with Chinese locale settings, which I guess wouldn't trigger the switch.

Anyway, I'll keep this thread in mind in case I hear of the issue coming up again.

[hlcfreelook]

I met the same problem (that's why i navigated to this page). Following  Steve Chandler's sugesstion, I found out the key combination for QD is ctrl+space in my Chinese OS (Win7 32bit). So I changed it to ctrl+shift+space. Problem solved.