longzoo Posted December 8, 2011 Report Share Posted December 8, 2011 I have a small annoyance that is getting increasingly painful. When i hover over a structure block like True/False or 0..x, i get a popup that says "Selector label". This frequently covers a portion of my code, especially when i'm on small screens where my structures are really crammed. (see jpg) I really want to disable the popup but I dont even know what to call it to search how to disable it. i thinkk this has been around for quite awhile but i am currently using LV2011. many thanks for a nudge in the right direction! Dave Quote Link to comment
GregR Posted December 8, 2011 Report Share Posted December 8, 2011 LabVIEW (at least internally) refers to those as tip strips. The editor does not provide any way to disable them. Quote Link to comment
asbo Posted December 8, 2011 Report Share Posted December 8, 2011 Just don't hover over the selector. Quote Link to comment
jcarmody Posted December 8, 2011 Report Share Posted December 8, 2011 That's a lot of Local Variables... Quote Link to comment
Popular Post Yair Posted December 9, 2011 Popular Post Report Share Posted December 9, 2011 The IDE doesn't provide a UI for disabling this, but there is an INI key which works. Add the following line to the LabVIEW.ini file and restart LV: showTipStringsOnDiagram=False 4 Quote Link to comment
longzoo Posted December 9, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2011 many thanks Yair!! i put the line right below showTipStringsOnTerms=False and voila, no more popups! And yes, jcarmody, it certainly is a lot of local variables, you should see the rest of my vi! I've never had any formal LV training and am more of a design engineer than a programmer. I find that locals are the easiest way for me to get stuff done. yes, my code may not look pretty but it typically works (after a couple debug sessions ;-P ) 1 Quote Link to comment
Yair Posted December 10, 2011 Report Share Posted December 10, 2011 i put the line right below showTipStringsOnTerms=False I don't know that one (and it doesn't actually matter where in the file you place the line), but if it does what I think it does (not show tip strips when you hover over terminals of VIs, primitives and nodes), I would suggest setting it to True, as I at least find that behavior to be very useful. Quote Link to comment
longzoo Posted December 19, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 19, 2011 update, I made showTipStringsOnTerms=True and left showTipStringsOnDiagram=False, now i get tip strips on the subVIs terminals but not on the structure block. thanks again everyone for your help! Dave Quote Link to comment
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