JDev Tools

[JDave]

Fellow wireworkers,

I really wanted to polish these up a bit more, but I also wanted to get them out a bit before NI Week. I won't be doing near as much LV development (hardly any ) for the next few years, so I figured I would put these out to the community and see if there is any worth in them.

First off, a disclaimer -- the images are from the Nuvola theme and if you use them in your work you should look at the licensing (BSD, I believe). I am also including modified versions of the Tunnel Wiring Wizard (TWW) and Michael's routine for coloring block diagram structures. Thanks to them for their original work. There may be more that I am forgetting...

Second, installation -- You should be able to copy the project and resource directories from the ZIP file directly over to a LV 8.2+ directory. The contents inside those folders will show up where they need to go. NOTE that this will replace the lv_icon file if you are already overriding the built-in icon editor. ALSO NOTE that if you don't have OpenG installed then you will need to open the code and link the OpenG files to the OpenG Support directory included as a separate ZIP. If you have OpenG installed then simply continue on with your awesomeness.

DESCRIPTION:

Included is an alternate Icon Editor and a Development Environment Toolbar. The purpose of the Icon should be fairly obvious, and the purpose of the Toolbar is to allow a nice way to group tools like the TWW for easy access as well as keyboard shortcuts. These are accessed from the menu bar Tools>>JDev Tools.

There is a help screen for the Icon Editor, but briefly its design is to parse the VI filename and auto-create a VI based on that. It allows for various themes to be created, and incorporates images easily into your VIs. There is an interface doing this en masse to a directory, as well as an individual interface if you modify a single VI's icon. I use tags to store the icon description, which allows for later modification. I could write a whole lot more, but go take a look...

The Toolbar has a couple other tools included that I wrote, to place captions on structures, and a couple dealing with the connector pane. The idea was to make it easy to write new tools and have them automatically show up in the toolbar. Right-clicking would bring up a 'parameters' view if applicable. Shift/Ctrl/Alt clicking would modify the behavior of the tool if applicable. Not a lot of documentation or help on this one, but it is fairly self-explanatory.

Download File:post-1519-1217518927.zip

Download File:post-1519-1217519496.zip

Let me know what you think. I know there isn't much time before NI Week, but I will be there and definitely at the BBQ.

David

(JDave)