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Johannes_T

Data Tooltip Should Display Function Name Of Pointer To Function Variable

Status: Under Consideration Submitted by Active Participant on 09-05-2013 09:08 AM 1 Comment

Summary:

Data Tooltip should also display the name of the function, when displaying the value of a function pointer variable.

 

Description:

While debugging a CVI application, when hovering the mouse cursor over a function pointer variable, the Data Tooltip displays the address of that function, referenced by the variable.

It would be very useful in cases when you have multiple function pointer variables referencing several different variables, to have the Data Tooltip not only display the address of those functions, but the name of the functions as well.

 

Data Tooltip With Function Pointer

 

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Wolfgang

Add an attribute to set the point size of the selected point style

Status: Under Consideration Submitted by Trusted Enthusiast on 10-20-2011 09:43 AM 6 Comment

Hi,

 

sometimes it woud be useful to have plot symbols available that are larger than the fixed standard size. Hence I suggest providing a plot attribute ATTR_TRACE_POINT_SIZE where one could set the point size (e.g. in pixels)

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Wolfgang

enable subscript and superscript in UI text messages

Status: Under Consideration Submitted by Trusted Enthusiast on 11-06-2010 12:14 PM 6 Comment

When designing a UI it is sometimes necessary to have text composed of indices and superscripts, e.g. R^2, chi^2, ...

 

Right now this can be accomplished only by using several texts in different sizes and by manually aligning these text fragments. This is quite tedious Smiley Sad

 

Hence I would suggest permitting simple control sequences to automatically have text parts in superscript, subscript, italics and bold within the very same text message (possibly similar to HTML)

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Wolfgang

complete C99 support

Status: Under Consideration Submitted by Trusted Enthusiast on 10-29-2010 07:02 AM 9 Comment

well, the title says it all: extend the current partial support of C99 standard to full support

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Wolfgang

polar plots

Status: Under Consideration Submitted by Trusted Enthusiast on 10-28-2010 05:34 AM 4 Comment

It has been discussed a few times in the forum so it might be appropriate to also ask here for the implementation of a native polar plot, i.e. plot r versus theta, with radial grid lines and all the corresponding ingredients.

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Peter_Prinzen

lines of code, ...

Status: Under Consideration Submitted by Member on 10-25-2010 01:37 PM 2 Comment

I would like to see some statistic informations about my cws and or prj-files. Like the "LinesOfCodeWichtel"...

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Wolfgang

GetCVIVersionEx

Status: Under Consideration Submitted by Trusted Enthusiast on 10-24-2013 01:22 AM 3 Comment

As suggested by Daniel (D-Cubed) an improved version of GetCVIVersion is needed in order to determine the patch level programmatically. Right now, no simple approach exists for an executable to determine if the CVIRTE is a patched version or not. For example, GetCVIVersion returns 1300 both for the patched and the unpatched 2013 release.

 

Thanks.

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CliffL

Support for IPv6

Status: Under Consideration Submitted by Member on 10-09-2012 03:46 PM 1 Comment

IPv6 is becoming more ubiquitous each year.  More and more the US government is requiring it for defense designs.  Microsoft has supported it in Visual Studio since 2008.  Even Agilent Vee supports it. It should strongly be considered for both LabWindows CVI and Labview.  There are workarounds using dlls, but a company like NI shouldn't expect users to have to do that.  I am off to start my workaround.  Please give this not so new idea some serious consideration.  Thanks.

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NeluF

Opening Multiple Instances When Launching Different Project (.prj) Files

Status: Under Consideration Submitted by on 09-06-2012 02:57 AM 2 Comment

I am feeling that LabWindows/CVI lacks a feature that leads to confusion and to minor lack of productivity. When opening the Project File from Windows Explorer or another manager, CVI will start and open that particular project. However, if an instance of CVI is currently running, it will close the project that’s opened and open up the new project. This doesn’t seem right. Let’s say your’re working on a project and you want to open a reference project or an example from ‚Samples’ in order to find some information. Your project automatically closes and you must open it again. You have to search the project on the disk and wait for it to load each time you want to look for something in another project. But you only want to take a look at that example (or reference project), you don’t want to work on it! A workaround exists: open up an instance of LabWindows/CVI and then open your second project. And you must do that for each supplementary project you want to open, while not losing you project of interest.

The feature I think should be implemented would allow the following behavior: when opening a project, LabWindows/CVI will check to see if that project is opened in one of its running instances. If it is, that particular instance is brought into view. If it isn’t, a new instance of LabWindows/CVI will be started and the project will be opened. That way you reduce waiting times (especially when a big project is involved in this switch) and increase productivity.

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Wolfgang

Add display format "SI Notation" to numeric controls

Status: Under Consideration Submitted by Trusted Enthusiast on 06-27-2012 07:01 AM 3 Comment

It has been suggested earlier (here) to provide the LabVIEW feature of a display format 'SI notation' allowing to directly enter 100 kHz (instead of 100000 or 1e5)

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kevin.key

Tree Control: Copy Selected Rows to Clipboard

Status: Under Consideration Submitted by Member on 04-28-2011 07:27 AM 1 Comment

It would be nice if you could copy the selected rows of a tree control to the clipboard.

 

tree example.png

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Wolfgang

status bar control

Status: Under Consideration Submitted by Trusted Enthusiast on 02-18-2011 07:14 AM 1 Comment

Over the years the look of CVI's control elements got closer to native Windows controls, e.g. by the direct use of native Windows controls such as the File Select Popup, which I would consider a welcome visual improvement.

 

What still is not available is a control element providing a Windows-like status bar, e.g. like the one of CVI's IDE.

 

I imagine a status bar which is similar to use as a menu bar, i.e. with a LoadStatusBar command, similar editing capabilities and the possibility to define the number and type of elements (text, image,...). Also the lower right part should resemble the typical Windows 'triangle', see figure below.

 

status.jpg

 

Thanks!

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Peter_Prinzen

configure batchbuilt; only compile certain projects...

Status: Under Consideration Submitted by Member on 10-13-2010 06:42 AM 3 Comment

Hi,

 

I would like to see an configuration of batchbuilt process. I have a big workspace with many projects; and would like to create different setups, like "compile only all server projects" or "compile all client projects". The workspace contains a big server-client -based software packages; some dll-projects used for server side only, some only client side.

 

Peter

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Rgulbrandson

LOCK CONTROL POSITION DURING USER INTERFACE DESIGN

Status: Under Consideration Submitted by Member on 11-30-2011 03:54 PM 4 Comment

When designing a new user interface it would be very helpful to have the ability to lock a control's position within a panel.  It is far to easy to inadvertently select and move a control that you have already spent time precisely positioning within a panel.

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Wolfgang

add cell type 'check box' to table control

Status: Under Consideration Submitted by Trusted Enthusiast on 06-09-2011 09:21 AM 1 Comment

Hi,

 

it has been discussed a few times in the forum of how to implement a check box control in a table, e.g. here. At present, this type is not natively supported. In principle, as second best possibility, one could use suitable image controls, but the 'correct' image of a check box depends on Windows version, theme, etc. Hence it would be much nicer to have a native check box control - thanks

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MAPJ

Multiple Y-axis [Ranges] in graph.

Status: Under Consideration Submitted by Member on 07-11-2012 02:23 AM 6 Comment

In few applications, while plotting multiple parameters on same graph,we should have multiple Y-axis insertion.

Like 1 parameter's axis limit is 0 to 50 while other has 0 to 5000 ,so when we plot both ,the change in parameter with smaller value is not seen properly.it look like plain line.

 

Also when we move cursor to graph it should show value at that position.

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test_man

Enhancements to auto "intellisense" feature just like visual studio

Status: Under Consideration Submitted by Active Participant on 05-18-2012 03:11 PM 1 Comment

Currently "intellisense" only show up when you enter control+space keys after typing a few characters.

 

In this case I typed: setctrl and then control+space to show up this:

 

intellisense.jpg

 

 

Another example:

my_var.jpg

 

I would be very efficient if this "intellisense" shows up as soon as you start typing first letter of variable name or function name.

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Wolfgang

UI editor: Find controls in C code and Allow copy & paste from status bar

Status: Under Consideration Submitted by Trusted Enthusiast on 04-08-2012 05:52 AM 1 Comment

Hello,

 

searching through the C code for specific controls first and foremost requires the knowledge of the control's name... If there are some hundred it may get difficult to remember and thus I typically have to check the UI for the constant name. Clicking on the control shows its name in the status bar, a welcome feature, but unfortunately I cannot directly use this text for searching...

 

statusbar.png

 

What I suggest is allow copying this status bar field using CTRL+C; then it's possible to switch to the C code, press CTRL+F and CTRL+V... (The property browser is not really useful here because it only lists 'NUMERIC_7' and misses the associated panel)

 

Another, even more powerful feature would be to add a right click popup menu either to this status bar field ('Search C code for this constant') or to the control popup itself: Besides 'Generate control callback' etc. I'd like to see another entry 'Find control in C code'

 

Thanks!

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CVI-User

Build Output: Prefer Errors over Warnings

Status: Under Consideration Submitted by Member on 11-09-2010 02:21 AM 1 Comment
CVI currently jumps to the first entry in the build output window, whether this is a warning or an error. I'd like to suggest an option to see the point of the first error, if there is any, before any warning. Maybe they could be color coded, too. When starting a new project I usually place some TODO messages (#pragma message) and if this is in a global header file I always see this and not the build error.
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Wolfgang

Provide a function GetPanelDisplayScreenshot

Status: Under Consideration Submitted by Trusted Enthusiast on 03-10-2012 02:53 PM 2 Comment

Hello,

 

I would consider it quite convenient having a simple CVI function, similar to GetPanelDisplayBitmap, providing a true screenshot image of a CVI panel.

 

As discussed here, the CVI function GetPanelDisplayBitmap does not provide a screenshot image of the panel, i.e. the bitmap lacks all OS-specific features (color theme etc.).

 

For backward compatibility reasons, NI should provide a new function, returning a bitmap that looks the same as if I would have pressed Alt+Prt Sc

 

 

Thanks!

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