Easy resize of labels created with a double-click.

[TrevorChristman]

If you drop a label from the palette, you can hold down the mouse button to adjust the starting size of the label.  When you release the mouse button LabVIEW gives keyboard focus to the label.  This is a good thing.

If you create a label by double-clicking on your VI, LabVIEW places the label and gives it keyboard focus at the moment your second click begins. 

It would be nice if LabVIEW didn't create the label until the second click ends, and allowed you to set the initial size of the label by dragging the mouse before releasing your second click.

[Jim_Kring]

I like it! 🙂

[David_L]

Wow.  That's brilliant.  I can't believe no one has thought of that before.

[tst]

I agree that setting the size of the comment before it's done is something which is needed, but I'm not sure this is a very good way, mainly because it's extremely non-intuitive (I've never heard of a double click where you delay the release of the second click).

An alternative (or additional) implementation would be to allow labels (and comments) to use the Shift+Enter shortcut you can use in string constants to mark when the constant should no longer grow horizontally.

[muks]

Nice one. Kudos.

[elset191]

tst,

I think the idea is to make it analagous to a for loop, or other kind of structure.

I personally don't like the idea.  I've never made a label that I didn't set to Size to Text

[Neil.Pate]

I give this kudus because the current method of entering text (labels or string constants) is awful.

I wish text fields (labels or string constants) were much smarter when it comes to resizing. Trying to type text into a small space on the BD is just painful. Current method for me is to type it somewhere else, manually resize and then drag into where it should go. The worst seems to be adding text inputs for a pop-up dialog, there is never enough space for the text!