Darren's Occasional Nugget 08/14/2014

[LukeASomers]

Holding shift to constrain has been a standard GUI convention since 1984...

[Hooovahh]

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@LukeASomers wrote:

Holding shift to constrain has been a standard GUI convention since 1984...

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There are no real "Standards" for UI development anymore.  Developers can choose to do things as seen in other programs or not.  I could say that CTRL + Y as re-do is a "Standard" but others would argue that CTRL + Shift + Z is a re-do standard.

[LukeASomers]

And yet, every single drawing, painting, presentation, or design program I've ever used has assigned 'hold shift' -> 'constrain'.

[Hooovahh]

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@LukeASomers wrote:

And yet, every single drawing, painting, presentation, or design program I've ever used has assigned 'hold shift' -> 'constrain'.

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My point is that everyone of those programs made a conscious decision to implement that feature, and had to write code to support that.  Same goes for LabVIEW.

[JB]

And if the LED is already oval, how do you make it round ?

Obviously with the Resize Objects Dialog Box.

 

[K1200LT_rider]

Can we just say that, for the majority of graphical applications, there are de facto key functions/combinations.  We know there is no official standard that graphical applications must follow.  If I wrote an app I could assign Shift-Ctrl-P to copy something, but that would be silly since everyone knows the de facto "standard" is Ctrl-C.

[LukeASomers]

Exactly why I said it was a convention, not a formal standard.

[TiTou]

no offense, I'm the same.

[StevenM]

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@Darin.K wrote:

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@georgewbush wrote:

Why isn't this sort of thing DOCUMENTED!  Surely I should be able to find these shortcuts without having to read a blog.  BUT THANKS FOR THE TIP!!

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http://www.ni.com/pdf/manuals/373353c.pdf

They seem to have stopped shipping this with LV, much more useful IMO than the stickers....

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In addition to the LabVIEW Quick Reference Card Darin.K linked, you can find information about this feature in the LabVIEW Help:

LabVIEW 2014 Help: Resizing Objects

LabVIEW 2014  Help: Keyboard Shortcuts

[dacad]

Works on lines as well. Hold Shift while dragging a line and it stays horizontal, vertical or at a 45 angle.  I had always figured this was a windows feature as anything I use that has graphics or shapes allows these types of controls.