Quick Drop-n-Drag

[yenknip]

Try this:

Ctrl-space

[your numeric constant shortcut]

The observed behaviour:

- The mouse down event places the numeric constant and keep it in focus for dragging the item around.

- Releasing the mouse button places the constant, selects the value and leaves it in the keyboard focus.

Good stuff.

Now try this:

Ctrl-space

[while loop]

The observed behaviour:

- The first mouse click (down-and-up) confirms the selection

- Second click (down-and-up) starts the drawing

- The third click ends the drawing.

What would be awesome would be the mouse down event is the start point for drawing a structure and mouse release ends drawing the structure.

[Darren]

Yes, I agree this would be cool, and I've requested it before. Unfortunately it requires changes in the mouse event handling code under the hood in LabVIEW, and that (non-trivial) work has never bubbled up in the feature priority list.

[yenknip]

Do you think it might be something that could be done with some scripting in a QD plugin? I don't know how well scripting can parse mouse events.

I'll dive into it if somebody can say "maybe, yeah"

[Darren]

I don't think it's possible with scripting. Sorry, no "maybe, yeah" from me. 😕