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Quiztus2

Improve readability of VI's membership in window title

Status: New

It takes me too much time recognizing to which class and library this opened VI is belonging to. This is espacially the case when working with LVOOP, having the same VI in different classes.

A subtle improvement would be to have bold colons or 1.5x space between colons and path components in order to improve readability.
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Actor Framework
4 Comments
_carl
Member

Those aesthetics would bother me.

 

That said...  I usually just press ctrl+shift+e, which will pulls up the method in your project, showing you which class it belongs to.

Petru_Tarabuta
Active Participant

+1. I too find it difficult to visually "split" the fully qualified VI name. Whatever method is chosen to improve readability, perhaps the same method could be applied to the VI name displayed in the VI Properties >> General page.

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fefepeto_kb
Member

While at this topic: it would be nice to have the ability to copy the fully qualified name without reading it out with a purpose built tool. Like make the value in the property window selectable for copy.

On the other hand I also disagree with the bold semicolon. Maybe the number of characters shall be increased, like instead of ":" it could be " : " or " - ".

Another thing that could improve readability would be if the font type for the libraries would be different, like namespaces and classes would be bold, and the VI name would be plan text.

Petru_Tarabuta
Active Participant

"it would be nice to have the ability to copy the fully qualified name without reading it out with a purpose built tool. Like make the value in the property window selectable for copy" - agreed. The following idea proposes it: Enable Qualified Name in VI Properties or add copy button