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The View menu contains items that display LabVIEW environment windows, including the Error List window, Getting Started window, and Navigation window. You also can display palettes and project-related toolbars. Use the Browse Relationships item to view aspects of the current VI and its hierarchy.

Note  Some menu items are available only on specific operating systems, with specific LabVIEW development systems, when an item in the Project Explorer window is selected, or when a VI is selected.

• Controls Palette displays the Controls palette.
• Functions Palette displays the Functions palette.
• Tools Palette displays the Tools palette.
• Error List displays the Error list window, which lists the errors in the current VI.
• VI Hierarchy displays the VI Hierarchy window, which you can use to view the subVIs and other nodes that make up the VIs in memory and to search the VI hierarchy.
• LabVIEW Class Hierarchy displays the LabVIEW Class Hierarchy window, which you can use to view the hierarchy of LabVIEW classes in memory and to search the LabVIEW class hierarchy.
• Browse Relationships contains items for viewing aspects of the current VI and its hierarchy. Browse Relationships includes the following items:
  • This VI's Library, XControl, or Class highlights the project library, XControl, or LabVIEW class to which the current VI belongs in the Project Explorer window. The menu item changes according to the type of library that owns the VI. If the library, XControl or class is not in a LabVIEW project, LabVIEW opens a new window that contains only the library, XControl, or class to which the current VI belongs. You can use the Library property to display the name of the owning library programmatically.
  • This VI's Callers displays a list of all the VIs that call the current VI as a subVI. You also can use the Callers' Names property to display the list programmatically.
  • This VI's SubVIs displays a list of all the subVIs to the current VI. This list does not include subVIs of subVIs to the current VI. You also can use the Callees' Names property to display the list programmatically.
  • Unopened SubVIs displays a list of all the unopened subVIs to the current VI, including subVIs of the current VI and subVIs of those subVIs. Use this list to see all the unopened VIs in an application. Select View»Browse Relationships»This VI's Hierarchy to display a hierarchical list of all VIs in an application.
  • Unopened Type Defs displays a list of all the unopened type definitions to the current VI.
  • Reentrant Original displays the front panel of the reentrant VI that calls the current VI as a subVI. You can edit only the subVI, not the reentrant VI.
• Class Browser displays the Class Browser window, which you can use to select available object libraries and view classes, properties, and methods within the selected object library.
• ActiveX Property Browser displays the ActiveX Property Browser from which you can view and set all the properties associated with an ActiveX control or document in an ActiveX container.
• Getting Started Window displays the Getting Started window.
• Navigation Window displays the Navigation window. This item is available only in the LabVIEW Full and Professional Development Systems.
• Toolbars allows you to show or hide the Standard, Project, Build, and Source Control toolbars. These toolbars are only available in the Project Explorer window.