Icon Editor Default Tab

[MGould]

This is probably a super stupid question, but it is driving me up the wall and I can't figure out the solution.  When I double click on a VI's icon in the upper right corner of the IDE, it pops up the Icon Editor.  Normally I don't spend any time on drawing an icon, I just type in some descriptive text for the VI in the "Icon Text" tab, hit ok and move on with life.  Up until today, every time I open the icon editor it pops up with the "Icon Text" tab selected and I just start typing my text.  However, maybe I did something, or LabVIEW did something, or some rogue electrons did something but the Icon Editor now defaults to the "Glyph" tab on opening. Every time I have to select the "Icon Text" tab manually.  Does anyone know how to reset the default selected tab on the Icon editor? Please, my sanity is at stake!  I've checked all the options tabs, and the options in the Icon Editor and didn't find anything.

[Kyle97330 · Accepted solution]

Find the "LabVIEW.ini" file in your "C:\Program Files (x86)\National Instruments\LabVIEW 2016" (or whatever version) directory.

Search for the "IconEditor.MostRecentTab" entry and change it to "00000001"

You also might check to see if that file got changed to read-only somehow, as I'm pretty sure its supposed to save the last tab position you used

[MGould]

You good sir, are a gentleman and scholar.  That did indeed fix it.  

So here is the weird thing:  my LabVIEW.ini was actually missing the IconEditor.MostRecentTab entry.  I went ahead and added it and it started working.  I wonder if somehow I had a crash that deleted the line and that is why it wasn't saving my last tab selection.

Anyway, many kudos to you.