Hide .lvclass extension of classes in Project Explorer

[Jim Kring]

I wish there were a way to hide the .lvclass extension (and perhaps the file extensions of all LabVIEW native file types, or maybe even all files) in the Project Explorer. Having them visible tends to reduce the signal to noise ratio of my LabVIEW development experience.

:2cents:

-Jim

[Ton Plomp]

QUOTE(Jim Kring @ Oct 5 2007, 10:42 PM)

I wish there were a way to hide the .lvclass extension (and perhaps the file extensions of all LabVIEW native file types, or maybe even all files) in the Project Explorer. Having them visible tends to reduce the signal to noise ratio of my LabVIEW development experience.

:2cents:

-Jim

Have you tried changing the localized name?

Ton

[Jim Kring]

QUOTE(tcplomp @ Oct 5 2007, 10:26 PM)

Have you tried changing the localized name?

Hi, Ton. I'm not sure what you mean by that. Please explain.

[Ton Plomp]

QUOTE(Jim Kring @ Oct 6 2007, 01:49 PM)

Hi, Ton. I'm not sure what you mean by that. Please explain.

Well it was a long shot, but unfortunately it didn't work.

The localized name is accessed via the 'Properties' 'Documentation' it is present because NI wants to use for every language version of LabVIEW the same lvclass file.

Ton

[Christina Rogers]

Jim,

Do you think that removing the file extensions would get confusing to some folks? I am concerned that the icons in the project aren't distinct enough.

- Christina

[eaolson]

QUOTE(Christina Rogers @ Oct 8 2007, 11:08 AM)

Do you think that removing the file extensions would get confusing to some folks? I am concerned that the icons in the project aren't distinct enough.

That very reason is why I've pretty much trained my brain to ignore the icons. It's like the Windows default to hide the file extension; I always want to ask people, "How can you work like this?"

Perhaps make it a setting in the Options?

[Jim Kring]

QUOTE(Christina Rogers @ Oct 8 2007, 09:08 AM)

Jim,

Do you think that removing the file extensions would get confusing to some folks? I am concerned that the icons in the project aren't distinct enough.

- Christina

Hi Christina,

Mac users have been working without file extensions for quite some time and this is the default setting in Windows, now. And, if this a setting were available from the Project's View menu, then users could easily enable or disable it.

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Thanks,

-Jim