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Darren

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  1. 3 hours ago, hooovahh said:

    There are private events on the tree for Item Close? and Item Open? which is a filtering event and allows you to discard the open and close.  You need the super special private special stuff INI to access these.  Then I'd recommend turning that INI off after.

    From what I can tell, the Item Close(?) and Item Open(?) events are not private. Maybe they were in a previous LabVIEW release?

  2. 1 hour ago, Tom O said:

    For Darren, if you try to wire from the constructor, you cannot find the terminals.  It is only if you create another object and try to wire it to the constructor that you can connect to the terminals (or if you try to wire one of the other terminals on the constructor to the hidden ones).  Also, their vertical location is in the center of the constructor, so if you are trying to connect to the top, it will appear that they don't exist.

    Ah, there's the piece I was missing. Thanks for those details.

    I have filed CAR 711518 on this issue. I agree that it is a significant usability concern that it is so easy to wire to that null reference terminal, have code that doesn't function correctly, and not have an indication as to why.

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  3. 19 minutes ago, ShaunR said:

    It does surprise me. I would have thought an entry for VI Type would have been added to the enum.

    Yeah, I think the explanation given to me was that the contents of the .vim file on disk are no different than the contents of a .vi file on disk. So since it's technically not a different file type, they thought it didn't warrant a new enum entry. Kinda like how there's not a "Template VI" entry in the list since .vi and .vit are the same type on disk. I may be misremembering though so don't take this as the official answer.

  4. Another option is creating a lv_new_vi.vi in that same folder. This VI will override the behavior of pressing Ctrl-N. You can find the required conpane for the VI on labview wiki somewhere, but I think it's just 4x2x2x4 with an I32 in the upper right. Unfortunately (due to its age as a feature) it has no knowledge of application instances, and thus doesn't work properly when pressing Ctrl-N under different containers in the project window.

  5. 1 minute ago, Jim Kring said:

    I'm looking for a way to change a visible state of a Case Structure, and (A) not have this show up in the Undo Transaction history and (B) not wipe out the undo history. Right now, if I don't create an undo transaction for the visible frame change, it wipes out the undo history :-(

    I don't know of a way to accomplish this. As discussed above, changing a VI with scripting requires the Transaction methods to preserve Undo history. To my knowledge you can't modify a VI with scripting, have that modification not show up in the Undo history, but preserve the previous Undo history.

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