Make adding label wires super easy (Step 1: Select Wire, Step 2: Start Typing, Step 3: Profits!)

[MichaelAivaliotis]

Currently (in LabVIEW 2010), you can add labels to wires. Hurray!!

But it's painful. Boooo!

Curently => Right-Click wire, navigate to sub-menu of Show>>Label

It should be as easy as adding free text to block diagrams or front panels. For example: If your auto-tool is on then just double-click on freespace to add text.

So we should make it just as easy to add labels to wires:

• Step 1: Single-Select Wire
• Step 2: Start Typing
• Step 3: Profits!

We don't need no stinkin' right-click menus.

PS: I am proposing a single click on the wire instead of double-click because that performs a different action.

[jcarmody]

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@Michael Aivaliotis wrote:

[...] We don't need no stinkin' right-click menus. [...]

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Bite your tongue!

[Tomi_Maila]

This should be extended for any graphical objects such as nodes, controls, constants etc.

[Broken_Arrow]

Good Idea

[MichaelAivaliotis]

I would agree with Tomi. My idea is cool in of itself but why stop there?

[GregFreeman]

I also would like to be able to add more labels to wires where they split, not just where a more is. For instance, I on my latest RT program I have a cluster of queue references going to all 7 loops. It is initialized outside the loops and split to all of them. Id like to put a label on the wire right before it enters each loop but, alas, cannot.

[GregFreeman]

Node not more*

[egraham]

This is a good idea and they do have some other bugs to work out with their wire labels. I was moving a large chunk of code across the block diagram. Afterwards I would try to save and it crashed LV every time I did this. I sent the code in to NI and this was their response:

"It has been discovered that wire labels have some ill effects in Labview at the moment when dealing with large vi's.

Again this is a known issue that is scheduled to be fixed in later releases of the software."

[MichaelAivaliotis]

Oh dang!

[Daklu]

This is a great idea!  I also agree with the additions proposed by Tomi and for(imstuck).

[parthabe]

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@michael_Aivaliotis wrote:

PS: I am proposing a single click on the wire instead of double-click because that performs a different action.

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And, triple-click selects the entire wire chain (can I call it as a chain?!) 🙂