LabVIEW Idea Exchange

Imediately after posting this I found the "find all instances" for a typedef sort of right there in front of me.

But finding all instances returns the typedef used as a control. It would be useful to be able to find all instances of a typedef constant from the right click menu.

Auto wire is very convenient most of the time. Sometimes, however, something like this happens:

To avoid that, you either need to place the second node very far away and move it back, or manually delete the wires, which can be a pain. Especially considering you see the wires it's going to add while you're dragging it, but have no way to tell LabVIEW you don't want them other than deleting them manually. It would be nice to be able to hold a key down to temporarily disable this feature.

But what if you don't notice it's going to place a wire until you've already placed it? There should be a key for that too. If there haven't been any edits since the last time something was auto-wired, you could just press a key and the last auto-wire would go away. A good way to do this would be to just have the auto-wiring count as a separate action in the undo buffer, so you can hit Ctrl+Z once to get rid of the wires, and again if you don't want the object you placed at all.

I remember this in previous (pre-8.2) versions of LabVIEW - not sure why it was removed.  I have a use case to use projects as templates (like when someone wants to write a plugin for a utility I've written, I want to be able to send them a zip containing a project, methods, etc).  The project includes installer settings (so their files go into the right place under my util's plugins folder, but when they build and try to install their plugin, they get an error if another plugin bult using the same template has already been installed.  This is because the "Upgrade Code" (stored in the lvproj file) is the same (it tells Windows that the two products are the same, so subsequent installs are seen as upgrades or replacements, not new installs.

My memory tells me that I used to be able to hit a "Generate" button somewhere which would give me build a new code - all I'm asking for is that back (I can add a step in my work instruction to hit that button before you build).

I don't currently have a workaround for this (other than having engineers manually edit the lvproj file) - if anyone has a better idea, I'd love to hear it for the interim!

While browsing through Property Nodes, I would like a visual clue that a node is Scripting. It's great that the nodes are light blue, but only once they are placed on the BD do we know that they belong to Scripting.

Ideas might include:

1) Glyphs next to each node in the list, but I am concerned how these adornments might slow down the pop-ups.

2) Ordering the Scripting nodes at the bottom of the list, below a line that reads "Scripting Nodes".

3) Easiest: Indicate that a node is for Scripting in the Context Help, as shown below.

Remark: This example is using the numerical-double-data-type but it is valid for all other data-types, too. I'm using LabView 2011SP1 (german)

Creating a reference from a numerical-control is not new and very easy to do via the context menu. But I'm missing a similar function to create a double-control from a double-reference / double-reference-control.

This would be very helpful especially when there is a VI that requires a reference to a special data type as input and you need to create a control of exactly this datatype.

As already suggested in an other idea here in this board it would also be helpful to have a context menu entry that allows to create a reference control from a numerical control without make the detour with a reference in the block diagram.

Something that I think got lost in the newer versions:

You copied a code snipped , switch to your block diagram and paste the code. 

Currently (8.6.1) the code will show up highlighted in the center of the screen and you have to move it where you think it belongs.

I want to (right) click on a position in a diagram, hit Ctrl-V  and the code show up at the click position.

I think it was there in the past, however I didn't found something in the options to turn that back on.