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Can your add-on do this?

Sumedha
NI Employee (retired)

There is a way to build add-ons that plug directly into the LabVIEW project window. Using LabVIEW Project Providers, your add-on can integrate into the project and add new menus, toolbars, right click menus and do much more:

1. Add new menu options

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2. Add new toolbar buttons to Project Explorer window

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3. Add right click pop-up menu options

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4. Modify the icons in the project tree

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5. Customize the double-click behavior of any item in the LabVIEW project

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6. Add new items to the project tree

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To get a better idea of what YOUR add-on can do with project providers look at some existing project providers from National Instruments:


1. LabVIEW Source Control

2. LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit

3. Build Specifications: Application Builder, Source Distribution, and Web Services

For more information on building provider based add-ons, please contact the LabVIEW Partner Program Team

Sumedha Ganjoo | LabVIEW R&D