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I added one.

Doggonit, Stephen, now that one (the Shift+Enter on string constant entry) I really never heard before anywhere. Most of the others I've seen here are the ones that I either use already, or would if I could remember which modifier to hold down while dragging, etc, but this one is new to me, and immediately useful.

Can you tell us in which version of LabVIEW it made its debut?


Dave

Ya, this (the Shift+Enter on string constant entry) is pretty usefull and I wish it would work on floating label.

I constantly catch myself trying to shift+enter floating labels...

PJM

Same here. I actually wrote this feature (David: I *think* it first appeared in LV8.0) out of frustration with the string constants. Unfortunately, free labels have a different code path, and I've never gotten back to the project to learn that section of the code. Perhaps someday I'll get around to it. Or someone else will. I filed a CAR (4229R4F2) at the time so that I'd keep thinking about it. You know, in my spare time. ;-)

Here's some ammunition that might help push it through. Just say...

"Anyone (using LabVIEW) who doesn't see this as a critical feature (for free labels) is obviously not commenting thier code enough!"

My LabVIEW coding style is so elegant that the code is 'self-documenting'. No need for additional comments

Yes, it's saying "this section of the code needs coments and/or rewriting"

[OT]

I taught myself to code in C prior to taking a college course in same.

After submitting my first project and anxiously awaitng feedback I was disappointed that the only comments the T/A had about my code was;

"Too many comments! It is hard to find the code."

I have yet to see "self-documenting code" that revealed the "big picture".

Ben

And we never will, at least until Alfa starts showing us his code.

Or you've started using string constants on the diagram for documentation.

Just popped into my head....

Durring the very first LabVIEW Coding Challenge (bit banging?) I beleive it was Jim that posted after we saw the general trend that the speed of the VI approximately follows the size on disk (smaller VI smaller run time) that a VI with no comments will run faster than a VI with comments. I did a quick check at that time and was suprised it was true! I wonder if that is still true...

I guess I will just have to test it huh?

Ben

Oh yes, that's a great way to document your compiled binary code

Plus, with a string constant you can't double click an empty space in the diagram and then start typing, which is something you can do with a standard comment if you use the auto tool.

In LV8.5 the unwired constant won't be in your final compiled code. I don't know when this behavior was added to LV.