More Alignment Options on Block Diagram and Front Panel

[Jarrod_S.]

Currently LabVIEW has a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl-Shift-A) to redo the last alignment. This is nice, but it makes me remember which alignment I performed last, which is very cumbersome. I often get very confused when this is not the alignment I'm expecting it to be and have to undo that operation and try again manually.

As someone who programs a lot with LabVIEW and likes neat diagrams, I do a lot of aligning. I could significantly speed up my development if I had keyboard shortcuts for all possible alignments. I propose using the keypad numbers to represent the alignment options, as in the following:

• Ctrl-Shift-4: Align Left
• Ctrl-Shift-6: Align Right
• Ctrl-Shift-8: Align Top Edges
• Ctrl-Shift-2: Align Bottom Edges
• Ctrl-Shift-5: Vertical Alignment
• Ctrl-Shift-0: Horizontal Alignment

The last two options are a little less straight forward and more debatable, but I would be happy to memorize any new keyboard shortcuts in return for more efficient development.

Message Edited by Jarrod S. on 10-12-2009 04:38 PM

[GregSands]

I agree.  I wondered if one easy way to achieve this would be to add each individual align (and distribute?) option to the list of Menu Shortcuts so users could set their own shortcuts in the options.  It seems that the keypad keystrokes are reported differently depending on the status of the NumLock key, so that could be a problem, but using Ctrl-Shift-Arrows would work fine.

[oihjohipuh]

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[onnodb]

I reverted to using AutoHotKey to create my own keyboard shortcuts for the alignment tools; but having 'native' keyboard shortcuts for this would be invaluable!

[MGould]

This is 7 years old and still hasn't been implemented?!?  This would promote clean coding that NI is always promoting, why isn't it in yet.

[jcarmody]

I wrote a quick-drop plugin for you to use while we wait.