How to install a Quick Drop Keyboard Shortcut plugin

[Darren]

There are two locations from which LabVIEW loads Quick Drop Keyboard Shortcut plugins. 

[LabVIEW 20xx]\resource\dialog\QuickDrop\plugins

• Plugins installed here are only accessible in that version of LabVIEW.
• These plugins are available to any user logged in to the computer.
• Save the plugin VI(s) in this LabVIEW version to improve load time performance of the plugin.

[LabVIEW Data]\Quick Drop Plugins

• You can use Tools > Options > Paths > Default Data Directory to find out where the LabVIEW Data folder is on your system.
• Plugins installed here are available in any LabVIEW installed on the system that is equal to or newer than the version used to save the plugin VI(s).
• These plugins are available only to the user account that contains the LabVIEW Data folder.

If you are using a package management tool like VIPM, it makes the most sense to install Quick Drop plugins to the LabVIEW 20xx folder. If you are manually installing a plugin and want to share it across different instances of LabVIEW, you should install it to the LabVIEW Data folder instead.

[Guillermo.O]

Hi Daren,

Do you know where are the shortcuts installed? I would like to automate the assignment of each shortcut to the correspondent plugin during the VIPM install. 

Thanks

[Guillermo.O]

Oh never mind,

If someone else is looking for this, check this KB:

Boost labview productivity with quick-drop 

[Guillermo.O]

The keys for each type of shorcuts are:

• QuickDropDiagramShortcuts
• QuickDropPanelShortcuts
• QuickDropKeyboardShortcutMappings