Share Your Input: The Next LabVIEW Feature to Go Open Source

[sergiovelderrain]

Now that our GitHub repositories for the Icon editor and Actor Framework are live, we’re excited to move forward with our next phase of open-sourcing additional LabVIEW features. We’d love your input on what you’d like to see open-sourced next. Please leave a comment with your suggestions—your feedback will help us prioritize and determine which features to release based on community demand. Thank you for helping us shape the future of LabVIEW!

[Andrey_Dmitriev]

I would like to see Quick Drop completely open source without password-protected diagrams.

The first thing which I would like to change is annoying "Populating List..." delay.

In additional some kind of "AI" could be added here in theory.

[Kyle97330]

Are tools like "LVCompare" and "LVMerge" up for consideration?  Since they are separate EXEs rather than built-in to LabVIEW as plugins, it's less clear if they're even options.

[crossrulz]

Posting my list again in no particular order:

• VI Analyzer - is technically a paid tool (included with Pro), but we can try
• Getting Started Window
• The many properties dialogs (VI, control, options, etc.)
• The Math and Signal Processing libraries
• QuickDrop
• LabVIEW Examples

Not part of LabVIEW, but NI owns:

• gRPC - Move under Sergio's control to let people actually contribute.
• The IDNet library - It would be nice to clean up a lot of those and turn them into packages.

I will keep repeating: anything in LabVIEW written in G should be open source. This should be the goal. I know this will be a long process, one item at a time.

[ooth]

My vote is for the Breakpoint Manager. Particularly I would like the ability to turn on/off highlighting per breakpoint, kind of like the how you can toggle the enable/disable. I already incorporated this into some of my custom probes but would also like to do it on breakpoints.

[Quiztus2]

Open up the implementation of Variant.

This would help creating toolkits a lot.

[JoGra]

The DAQmx hardware simulation would be great to be open source or have an extendable interface!

DAQmx is the bread and butter of LabVIEW based test systems and any serious development project benefits from early testing with simulated hardware. The simulation capabilities are however very limited ( only sine waves as signals and that triggers are not supported). Open-sourcing this code or providing an interface would allow the community to provide new simulation features and improve the software-based testing and more of it can be moved to automated CI/CD pipelines. 

[BertMcMahan]

NI was working on a native Datagrid control for a while, even going so far as to solicit information from users via interviews. Unfortunately, it appears to be completely cancelled at this point. I'd love to see that become open source.

The other hope would be for the plotting tools to become open source. I'd LOVE to be able to do things like, say, decouple the legend from the plot window.

[brentjustice]

The internal LabVIEW PICC format for graphics.
This is the only way to create vector-scaling graphics in LabVIEW which can by dynamically colored with FG/BG colors.
But, this format is closed-source.  I've always wanted to be able to create one of these, even if it was a painful and archaic process.

[aputman]

The Options Dialog.  I know a project (Options Dialog Framework) was posted a while back but it was locked.  Would like to see this updated and made more accessible.