LabVIEW Environment

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LabVIEW Environment

Keyboard Shortcuts
Navigating the Controls and Functions Palettes
Controls Palette

Select a Control

Customizing Your Work Environment

Accessing Recently Opened Files
Dragging and Dropping VIs, Pictures, and Text
Startup Screen On Windows
Customizing the Controls and Functions Palettes

Adding VIs and Controls to the User and Instrument Drivers Subpalettes
Automatically Updating Custom Palette Views
Changing Palette Views
Creating ActiveX Subpalettes
Creating and Editing Subpalette Descriptions
Creating Subpalettes in Custom Palette Views
Creating and Editing a Custom Palette View
Inserting Rows or Columns in a Custom Palette View
Linking Subpalettes to HTML Files or Compiled Help Files
Merging VIs in a Custom Palette View
Moving Subpalettes in a Custom Palette View
Sharing Palette Views

Setting Work Environment Options

Adding a Directory to VI Search Path
Setting Grid Size
Setting Path Options
Setting Printing Options for the Current VI
Setting Revision History Options for the Current VI
Setting Undo

Finding Objects

Finding a Block Diagram Terminal from a Front Panel Object
Finding a Front Panel Object from a Block Diagram Terminal
Finding All Instances of a VI or Type Definition
Finding an Object or Terminal Local Variable
Finding an Object or Terminal Property Node
Searching for Controls, VIs, and Functions on the Palettes
Searching for VIs in a Directory
Searching VIs in Memory for VIs, Objects, and Text

Searching VIs in Memory for Text
Searching VIs in Memory for VIs and Other Objects

Functions Palette
Menus

Aligning Objects Using the Alignment Grid
Browse Menu
Edit Menu
File Menu
Help Menu
Operate Menu
Shortcut Menus
Tools Menu
Window Menu

Aligning Objects
Distributing Objects
Reordering Objects
Toolbar Buttons

Selecting a Tool

Using the Context Help Window
Using the Navigation Window

Resources