Create Reference Control directly from the terminal

[Saranbalu]

For any FP terminal, if I have to create a control for its reference, I have to create a reference first and then the control for that reference. It's a 2-step process. If the reference is not going to be used anyway, you will have to delete that out as an extra step. Why not just have an option to create the control of the reference as shown below? This option would be really nice to have if we need to create reference controls for many terminals.

Also why label this control reference as "Numeric 2" while my original control was labeled "Numeric"? I am anyway going to delete that "2" and have a one-to-one correspondence of the reference control to the control itself. Are there any good reasons to justify the current behavior? 

Regards,

Saranya

[tst]

There's no such thing as a "control for a reference of a control". A control is relevant only if you want to use the reference in a subVI or with a local so there's no point in deleting the reference.

Personally, when I create a reference, I rarely need it in a subVI.

If I do, it's often easier to create the code and then do Create SubVI (which automatically creates the control) or to create the control from the reference and then cut and paste it in the subVI. In that case, I don't delete the reference, so there's no extra step.

If you want to save some time on multiple reference, you can have a look at this.

[Darren]

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