Default Probes should "Fit to Pane"

[TurboPhil]

The "Probe Display" pane of most default probes should have indicators that are set to "Fit to Pane". The worst offenders, in my opinion, are Strings and Variants...I often find myself cursing the fact that I can't see more of the data, and usually have to copy & paste into Notepad++ or something to actually see what I'm looking for.

Yes, you can make custom probes for this behavior. But it should be native.

[RobertN]

Nice Idea, and also it should be possible to change the radix for numerical indicators / viewing mode for string indicators.

[David_Staab]

This is so painfully obvious and trivial to change that I get angry every time I place a probe in each new version of LabVIEW.

[Brett_J]

Great Idea, It would be very useful for chart/graph probes.

[Mads]

Just make the default probes smarter...

[JÞB]

As often as I create (and use) custom probes you might think I would go for this.  However, it just doesn't rise to the top of my list for two reasons.  1) I like MyProbes  Someone at the nidiface might make ugly ones without the exact feature I really wanted so I'm stuck creating custom probes again and got no benefit.  2) I really don't write that many bugs anyhow so that 30 seconds per custom probe isn't going to save me hours of time.

[fabric]

That's a LOT of kudos in less than a month...

NI: This one might actually be realistic for 2014! Maybe a quick job for super-Darren??

[Darren]

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@fabric wrote:

This one might actually be realistic for 2014! Maybe a quick job for super-Darren??

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The default probes are not written in G. And unfortunately, C code is Super Darren's kryptonite.

Now Super Stephen, on the other hand... 😉

[GregFreeman]

Maybe in the interim, Super Darren can create custom probes that ship with LabVIEW?

[JÞB]

You know,  This wouldn't be too hard to tackle ourselves and place over in the code sharing repo. see here https://decibel.ni.com/content/groups/saphir-toolkit/blog/2010/11/18/set-of-custom-probes.  some work has already been done by Saphir

[YavannaKementári]

Great idea, kudo'ed. I had a similar idea that the probe display should also allow for the user to change the size of the objects in the display (this would be particularly helpful for more complicated items, such as clusters and arrays). http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Resize-or-Change-View-of-Probed-Data/idi-p/1854469