Argh! I lose again. First it was the great palette shuffle caper. Now it is the right click menu! It is funny how something so tiny gets ingrained into such a strong habit. In 2011 and before you could right click a thing, hold the right button down, navigate to your choice and release. Now when you let go, LabVIEW just stares dumbly back at you. But hey, conditional tunnels! Yay.
NI & LabVIEW 2012 vs My Muscle Memory
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, Aug 09 2012 02:48 AM
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Posted 09 August 2012 - 02:48 AM
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Posted 09 August 2012 - 06:33 AM
What do you gain by holding the button? Or is this just an old habit?
I did not even realise this had changed until I tried it in 2011 and 2012.
I think the old behaviour was "non-standard"...
I did not even realise this had changed until I tried it in 2011 and 2012.
I think the old behaviour was "non-standard"...
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Posted 09 August 2012 - 03:56 PM
The old behavior was prevalent on very old Macs - I don't think I've seen that in any applications (other than LabVIEW) in yearsI think the old behaviour was "non-standard"...
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Posted 10 August 2012 - 01:33 PM
Well I played around with some other apps on windows to see if there was a "standard" behavior. And it's true that nothing else really behaves the way LabVIEW did. That being said, LabVIEW still doesn't behave the same was as other Windows apps (at least on Win7). Both explorer and google chrome require you to release the right mouse button before displaying the context menu. *shrug* It isn't exactly the apocalypse... just one of those little things that irritates. In fact, the change was so subtle I first thought my mouse button was starting to break.
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Posted 11 August 2012 - 02:21 PM
If it is any consolation, click-hold-select still works on the Mac in LV 2012. I just tested it.
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Posted 19 October 2012 - 01:19 PM
You can also connect terminals with a wire using click-hold-release. That behavior still exists in 2012.
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