05-01-2014 11:33 AM
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.
05-01-2014 11:36 AM
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.
05-01-2014 11:50 AM
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"
05-01-2014 01:15 PM
I don't think it's possible with scripting. Sorry, no "maybe, yeah" from me. 😕