Relative Pallette Selection (show-up from context menu) should be (made) more intelligent!

[parthabe]

See the snapshot for a visual clue.

Most often we need to browse to the palette of the base data type (in this case Bool, and not only the datatype of the wire (Array)), to search/insert/replace a function while coding. Here I wanted to bring the And Array Elements function from the Boolean palette by clicking the Equal To function's output, but it gives me an option only to the Comparison & Array palettes. I'd prefer the Boolean palette to be shown up in the options. 🙂

This suggestion should be considered in a very generic & more inclusive manner for all the use cases.

P.S.:- I did not see any option for BD category, so labeling under UI & Usability (since the BD is an User Interface for me as an App Developer using LabVIEW. 🙂 )

[crossrulz]

Duplicate: Replace/Insert/etc context menu should show palette for wire element type as well as Array Palette

[parthabe]

Doesn't the search work for Idea Exchange, unlike stated in the Announcements?! 

[crossrulz]

Don't get us started on how horrible the search engine is.  It took me a few tries to finally find that one.  I just knew it was somewhere out there.

[AristosQueue (NI)]

This is a feature that I implemented when I first did the source palettes and generally people didn't like the clutter it added to the popup menus. The feedback I got was that nodes that can operate on the subtype directly are pretty rare, rare enough that the palette for the subdata type is almost never useful. The major notable exception is numerics and booleans (and clusters of those), where many of the primitive functions are polymorphic to work on both scalars and vectors. But the general case seemed like a bad idea. At the time (~12 years ago), I didn't add any special case for those two types. Do you think that was a mistake? Or should the fact that users don't generally want the submenu guide all the types, including numeric and boolean, as it does today?

[AristosQueue (NI)]

Ah... this is a dupe... I missed that note. Thanks, crossrulz, for finding that.

[Darren]

Duplicate of http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Replace-Insert-etc-context-menu-should-show-palette-fo...

[parthabe]

Just curious.. Isn't Jim's idea a duplicate of Christian's (based on the date of posting)?  The only additional thing is the Insert function. 🙂

[crossrulz]

Which idea of Christian's are you looking at?  I see Christian making a comment to Jim's idea to which Jim replied.  Is that what you are referring to?

[parthabe]

I was not looking at (nor referring to) Christian's idea directly. Read the link you posted, where Jim refers to Christian's idea as "related". So, IMO, Jim's idea is a duplicate of Christian's.

If you are still not clear, read the link you posted from the beginning, not just from the comments section.

[crossrulz]

They aren't really duplicates.  They are different in what they are asking for.  They are related, but not duplicates.