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I propose that the Execution section of the VI property node include ALL of the options in the Execution pane of the VI Properties dialog.     This would allow programmatic changing of variables like Auto handle menus at launch that I would like to change programmatically across an entire project at once (since I didn't take the time to do so one-by-one as I developed my application). These should probably be False by default anyway :smileywink:, as commented...
May 18, 2012 - 10:42am
Apparently VI Analyzer toolkit doesn't support any 64bit LabVIEW version, this is really something I miss!   With all the good reasons to use it that NI gives it's hard to understand!
May 18, 2012 - 3:50am
 Have you ever placed a background image on your front panel to make it look good, but then found that most of the controls and indicators covered everything up? Ever wish LabVIEW had more appearance customization to make better looking GUIs?   I would like to propose an opacity slider control in the appearance settings tab of front panel object properties. The added setting would not make the entire objects opacity change; ideally the opacity control would only affect...
May 17, 2012 - 11:28am
The idea is pretty simple. When I probe an enqueue, I don't want to just see what is being placed on the queue, I want to see where that value is being de-queued.   I have a large legacy project which has a lot of inter-process communication. Queues are used for a lot of this. When I look at code where an element is enqueued, my debugging or code review comes to a screeching halt because I don't know where the data is being dequeued. The project does not use named queues.   This is...
May 17, 2012 - 11:08am
I have used labview for a long time and avid user.  One issue I have been hitting lately is the "LabVIEW everywhere" slogan never really panned out, it has become LabVIEW everywhere NI allows it to be.  I am getting jealous of the Arduino and Rasberry Pi and hundreds of PICS and ARMs not avaliable to me (Yes I have the pro liscence but not embedded).  I wish Labview pro opened up the toolchain and started porting to many other platforms by default.  I am seeing jobs that...
May 16, 2012 - 1:30pm
                Flush Queue with a Boolean to enable or disable it.                           
May 15, 2012 - 7:23pm
As discussed here a long time ago, I typically hide the labels of controls inside radiobuttons. We want to show the boolean text, because it is clickable. The labels are just in the way and clutter things up, so they are typically hidden.   A radiobutton control acts like an enum, with the items names corresponding to the control...
May 15, 2012 - 3:03pm
May 15, 2012 - 2:36pm
In Front panel when a button is created it will have default Label name so when Ctrl + Click and Drag the a new button identical to the button will get created and the label will be created with a number. This should also be applicable to Boolean text I never came accross a situation to have two buttons with the same boolean text.       I guess this would be useful.
May 15, 2012 - 1:52am
By using the property node "Allow Multiple Rows" of Tab Control, this allows to arrange any tab extended beyond the width of the Tab Control, but there is no property node to inform the quantity of rows that were added. It would be interesting to have this property node because it would be possible to perfectly fit the dimensions of the Tab Control when it is resized.
May 14, 2012 - 8:58am