Darren's Weekly Nugget 04/19/2010

[Darren]

I learned a cool trick from LAVA last week.  There are some keyboard shortcuts you can use while typing in the frame name field of a Case Structure:

 If you're typing in the frame name field and you press Shift-Enter, a new empty case structure frame will be added after your current one.  This trick is similar to my past nugget about how you can add new elements to a ring or enum. Even cooler, though, is if you press Ctrl-Shift-Enter, the current frame will be duplicated.  I didn't know about either of these until last week...they'll definitely be handy weapons in my keyboard commando arsenal... 😛

[LabBEAN]

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Darren wrote:

they'll definitely be handy weapons in my keyboard commando arsenal... 😛 

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Keyboard commando,

I, too, recently discovered Shift-Enter for case structures while facilitating a User Group discussion...  but had not heard of Ctrl-Shift-Enter for DUPLICATE!  Very nice.

Is there a master list of key-combos somewhere?

Message Edited by LabBEAN on 04-19-2010 01:48 PM

[Darren]

Here's the master list:

LabVIEW Keyboard Shortcuts

I see the Shift-Enter trick in there, but not the Ctrl-Shift-Enter one.  I've filed CAR# 221221 so we can get it added.

[LabBEAN]

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Darren wrote:

I see the Shift-Enter trick in there, but not the Ctrl-Shift-Enter one.  I've filed CAR# 221221 so we can get it added. 

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Thanks Darren.

I think I remember you saying (maybe during your keynote releasing QD) that all 26 letters already had assignments in the IDE, which is why you went with Ctrl-Space (good choice regardless).  I don't see Ctrl-J and Ctrl-K listed with the other LabVIEW Keyboard Shortcuts.  Also, Ctrl-Shift-B » Class Browser is not listed.  Could you them to that CAR?

What do Ctrl-J and Ctrl-K do?

[Darren]

Good question...Aristos Queue is the one who told me a while back that all the keyboard shortcuts were taken up (I think his specific story is that 'U' was the last letter left, and block diagram cleanup took it).  But looking through the docs and menus, I don't see anything that uses Ctrl-J or Ctrl-K.  So maybe we've got a couple to spare after all?  😛

I filed CAR# 221237 about the class browser shortcut.

[tst]

Ctrl+J and K control the Z order of the selected objects (and adding Shift moves the object all the way to the back or front).

[Darren]

Ah yes, thanks Yair.  I should have known AQ knew what he was talking about.  😉  These options are available under the Reorder toolbar menu:

[altenbach]

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Darren wrote:

Here's the master list:

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 So, when will somebody make a nicely formatted PDF so it can be printed double-sided on some handy triple-fold card stock. 😉

[tst]

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altenbach wrote:

 So, when will somebody make a nicely formatted PDF so it can be printed double-sided on some handy triple-fold card stock. 😉

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Unfortunately, that post is probably a waste, as I'm guessing most people don't remember that LV used to ship with such a card back in the days when NI would still consume a forest the size of Brazil for its documentation and thus don't get the reference.

[altenbach]

Hehe,

I'm just looking at the box for 5.1 (?), it took 7 inches of shelf space with all the printed manuals (I even found the quick reference card). That was a significant progress over the 4.0 version, which was a few inches wider :o. For LabVIEW 6.0, the box shrunk down to 3.5 inches thick, with the media box taking up more than half of the shelf space. LabVIEW 7 was 2.25 inches. 8.0 was under 2 inches. Later we got these thin CD albums we still have today.

Maybe I should fit the thickness data to a polynomial and extrapolate to the year 2020. 😄