List of Community Quick Drop Keyboard Shortcuts

[Darren]

The following is a list of community-contributed Quick Drop Keyboard Shortcuts for LabVIEW. If the shortcut has a default key specified, it is shown in parentheses after the name:

• Align & Compress BD/FP Objects (A)
• Align front panel controls to connector pane pattern (A)
• Align selected elements (A)
• Alphabetize Case Structure Cases
• Arrange VI Window (F)
• Autosize Clusters (Z)
• Better Move(Shift) Block Diagram Objects (C, S, X, and Z)
• CaseSelect (C)
• Change To/From Array (A)
• Clean All Wires (W)
• Clear Array(s) (C)
• Clone Control (C)
• Colour Up Structure (Q)
• Commands for "Create" Menu Options (A)
• Create FGV (and RT FGV) (E)
• Create multiple wire labels automatically from first element of the wire
• Create Object from Terminal (Q)
• Create Place VI Contents VI (G)
• Create via_ignore Bookmark (V)
• Diagram Disable Structure - Enable Visible Subdiagram or (shift) Remove (E)
• Disconnect from Typedef (Y)
• Find Static Events (S)
• Format Numeric (N)
• Get VI Saved Version (V)
• Insert In-Place Element structure with wire sensitive border nodes (I)
• LVOOP Assistant
• Make Controls Visible (V)
• Make Scrollbars visible (S)
• Miscellaneous shortcuts from SAPHIR
• Mission Control for Multi-Frame Structure (M)
• Mouse Wheel Move
• Move and Size - move panel/diagram contents to origin with one grid square border and resize window ... (J)
• Move Terminal Labels - enhanced functionality (T)
• Nattify VI (N)
• Open Class (O)
• Open Error Call Chain (L)
• Parse JSON to Cluster (J)
• Paste-replace sub VI or typedef (V)
• Paste to Array Constant/Control (E)
• Rename LVOOP FP Object Labels (Z)
• Replace or Insert (W)
• Reset Origin (O)
• Restart LabVIEW (Q)
• Rewire Error Case Structure (/)
• Selective Wire Cleanup (B)
• Set Numeric Representation
• Show VI in Windows Explorer (F)
• Silver Conversion Tool (S)
• State Machine Follower (F)
• State Machine from Enum
• Symbols Wizard (W)
• Toggle "Visible Items -> Radix/Display Style" (X)
• VI Properties Dialog (V)
• VI Server Rename (B)
• VI Snippet Quick Drop Plugins (U)
• Wire Label (L)
• Wire Multiple Objects Together (W)

Send a message to Darren if you have a community shortcut you want to add to this list.

[MountainClimber]

Hello  to all quick drop enthusiasts,

My company has developped some quick drop plugins, free to use (See the link "Miscellaneous shortcuts from SAPHIR" above).

We are very interested by some of the plugins developped by the community, and are about to build a vipc file to easily distribute and install these tools, at least internally.

As some of those plugins are open source (but not all), we were wondering if the authors would agree to let us publish the vipc file on this forum, as a benefit for the whole community ?

This vipc will only easily install the community plugins we selected, for LabVIEW 2010 and later, and our plugins. We may also change some shortcuts to avoid collisions.

So, if you have developped a plugin in the list above, you can reply me (here or as a private message) to give us permission to embed your plugin in the vipc file and publish it freely.

Thanks for your answers!

[Darren]

It's fine with me if y'all include any of my plugins in your .vipc file.

[JCC_(SK)]

I am giving you my permission include my plugins in your .vipc

Peter

[MountainClimber]

As mentionned a few weeks ago in the previous post, we released a vipc file that includes many of the community plugins.

You can find the file at the following link : https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-29097

Feel free to use and abuse it 😉 !

I also would like to thank each community contributor who allowed us to distribute their fantastic plugins !

[zou]

It would be nice to have the default shortcut on the list.

So when we create a new QD, we can pick up an unused shortcut.

George

[Darren]

Great idea, George. I have updated the page to show the default shortcut in parentheses after each plugin link.

[Taylorh140]

Is there a way to repeat the previous quick drop action?

[Darren]

Taylor, there is currently no way to repeat the previous quick drop action. You have to perform the same keyboard gesture again.

[zou]

Taylor, it can be implemented.  But I don't see the benifit of this.