How do I reduce the Labview Function/Controls panel delay times?

[Richard Baxter]

Dear NI,

When selecting submenus on the Labview Function or Controls panel (using the mouse left or right click), nothing happens. it is only when the mouse is left on the submenu for 2->3 seconds that the sub menu appears. This delay time is unacceptable.

the  2->3 second delay is even more useless considering we use a 0ms default windows menu delay (via regedit - HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\MenuShowDelay)

Note when a Function/Controls panel is pinned, submenus can be selected instantaneously (using left mouse button), however the pinned function is useless as a) it is not brought up by right clicking on the Window (and it stays in an arbitrary location on the screen), and b) it requires the user to navigate back/up the tree once drilling down (without a keyboard shortcut to navigate back/up)

We are currently using Labview 6.00 here. We see no reason to upgrade unless there are some serious keyboard shortcuts introduced into Labview. Has this menu delay issue being  resolved in a newer version of Labview?

0)       We require the ability to reduce the Function/Controls panel delay from 3 seconds to 0 seconds when submenus are selected using the mouse.

1)       We require the ability to assign keyboard shortcut keys to all operations (there are many tasks we need to repeat in labview that require multiple mouse clicks in pop up menus – this is time consuming).

a)       Eg we require the ability to quickly copy local variables (NB using Ctrl-c, Ctrl-v creates both a new object and a local variable corresponding to that new object, rather than just a copy of the local variable).

2)       We require the ability to perform the same operation to multiple objects at the same time

a)       Eg we wish to be able to select multiple local variables and, and change them to read or write

b)       Eg we wish to be able to select multiple property nodes and, change colour to blue

c)       Eg we wish to be able to select multiple invoke nodes and change method to invoke

3)       We require the ability to more easily select and unselect which controls/indicators are designated to be inputs/outputs of .vi (and possibly the ability to zoom in and out in the Diagram View) – this is particularly important when working on high resolution monitors.

Richard Baxter

[Ray.R]

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