JackDunaway

Has anyone attempted to add pages to the Class Properties Dialog (..\LabVIEW 2010\resource\Framework\Providers\VILibrary\LIBUIP_Properties_Dialog.vi)? It must be possible to add new pages since when I create a copy of the Wire Appearance page (..\LabVIEW 2010\resource\Framework\Providers\LVClassLibrary\libpropPage_WireDesignEditor.vi) it's enumerated twice. I've already tried simply naming a file prepended with "libpropPage_", but the contract requires more than that. I have a hunch I'm going to need controls for "Page VI Data", "page synch rendezvous", "stop event in", and "page events in". (With a name like "page events in" I'm pretty sure reverse engineering is out of the question, perhaps a peek under the password-protected-hood? )

You know what... you're right, I can't get it to work either with 2009 or 2010. Even with the chameleon color (d16777271). Perhaps this worked in the LV8 era, or more likely, just some strange deja vu of which I happen to remember procedural details. Best I can offer after bum advice is crelf's product suggestion for 0px splitters.

Do you get your desired effect by setting the splitter colors (FG and BG) to transparent? This must be done via property node, since the recolor tool fails to work. If I recall correctly, the splitter looks black in edit mode and actually turns transparent in run mode.

That date is probably December 9, 2010, not Sept 12, 2011.

I don't know if you've seen the new Idea about a LabVIEW Issue Tracker to facilitate this very issue; perhaps it's worth checking out. The best way I know to check the status of a CAR is to email or call someone who can access NI's internal bug database (e.g., an NI employee). They will sometimes be able to help, especially if the information is not "classified". Word on the street is Alliance partners also have (partial?) access to this database.

I think it's fair. NI has limited resources, and assuming they're dutifully employed, the developers working on Distribute Wires are not working on something better. Not specifically.

I'll be the first to admit: NumVotes is often not proportional to IdeaPowerOrUsefulness. Distributed Wires=356 versus Undo after Save=67 is a great example. I'm excited Distribute Wires is making it into the 2011 release, don't get me wrong, but it comes with the opportunity cost of any one of dozens of better Ideas.

This is a cross-post from the Dark Side - I've searched for a while without finding any definitive discussion on this topic, so please post your thoughts over there.

Thanks, Philippe! After lurking for three years, I finally decide to chime in for the first time with a buzzkill.

I respectfully question whether an Add-Ons Idea Exchange should branch from the LabVIEW Idea Exchange. A member of the team in charge of this division seems to agree. Feel free to post comments on that thread.