Actual icon to be shown in project viewer

[Mellroth]

I'd like to be able to switch the project explorer view to show actual VI/CTL icons instead of generic icons, very much like the function palette displays available methods.

The icon view should be possible to set for all items and/or only a subset of the project tree.

This would be very nice, since LabVIEW allows us to draw pictures that represents the code hidden in a VI, and a picture tells more than a thousand words...

/Jonas

Message Edited by Mellroth on 08-12-2009 12:59 PM

[Intaris]

Like the VI hierarchy but in tree form?

Hmm, I think it could be very useful as an option but please don't make it default....

[JackDunaway]

For a flourishing project that burgeons 1000+ VI's (I know, there are those of you out there who have even more!), showing the icons is just too much of a real-estate killer.

I have to admit... for a smaller project of 100 or less VI's, this could potentially be a better view.

[Mellroth]

The idea is to easily locate methods by icon instead of names.

If you have 1000 VIs you probably have splitted these VIs in groups anyway, and as I proposed, this view should be settable on a subset only.

I also don't mean that the real icon view should necessarily be a top-down list, but could use a number of columns (like the palette view) to display the VI icons.

/Jonas