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Guidelines for posting ideas

On behalf of the G Idea Exchange and GCentral, thanks for considering posting an idea for discussion. Here are a few guidelines to think about before posting the idea. 

Does the idea already exist in the community or on VIPM?

The effort of creating two competing ideas is usually not worth the time but is better spent to improve the existing idea with the functionality. If your idea differs significantly from the existing solution then write that in the idea post.

Is the Idea a request for a new LabVIEW primitive?

If the idea requires new LabVIEW primitives, the idea belongs on the LabVIEW idea exchange instead of here. 

Will your idea improve the productivity of everyone in the community?

It is important that other developers can see that the idea is something that they would vote for. Sometimes an idea is specific to a particular problem in your current project, which would be great if there was a solution, but it is hard to see the reusability of the idea.

Would you be willing to release the result of your idea under a permissive open-source software license?

In order for your idea to be used by others it would have to be released under a permissive open-source license, defining the rights of usage. The G Idea exchange can only support and possibly fund ideas that will be released as open-source. 

Discussions about an idea.

When you post an idea on this board it is open to discussion, and improvement by the community, and other developers can join in and ask questions about the idea. Consider these questions as sources for expansion and improvement of the idea rather than critique. When commenting on or discussing an idea please keep a respectful tone.

Best regards

The GCentral Idea Exchange

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Neil.Pate

Description
In Visual Studio or similar environments it is common to have a shortcut key (F5 for example in VS) build and run some preconfigured project. It would be really cool if we could have the same thing in the LabVIEW IDE. Pressing F5 (or whatever key was configured) from anywhere "inside" LabVIEW would then start a VI.  
Submitter
Neil Pate
LabVIEW Compatibility
The older the better
How would the user interact with this tool?
A (configurable) key. Default would be F5 to mimi what is done in Visual Studio
Distribution Method
VI Package (.vip)
Development Target Cost
$?

Other Notes
As a first attempt this could probably be implemented using Quick Drop, but I think it deserves to be baked into the actual IDE itself.

CaseyM

Description

This tool would provide a way to quickly run VI Analyzer on the subset of files that have changed since the last commit/push (Git is a prerequisite), present the user with a way to select a subset of those files, and then run user-specified VI Analyzer tests on them.
 
Developer
Sam Taggart
 
LabVIEW Compatibility
LabVIEW 2020+, 32 and 64-bit. Might be possible to develop in earlier versions, but would take some investigation.
 
How would the user interact with this tool?
The tool would be launched through QuickDrop.

 

Distribution Method

VI Package (.vip file)

 

Other Notes

Future enhancements could include:

  • Automated testing of the tool (for easier community development)
  • GCLI API