How about a Front Panel Cleanup?

[JackDunaway]

We (most of us) have come to find benefit in the Block Diagram cleanup - especially with the fresh upgrades that 2009 provides. How about a Front Panel Cleanup?

Our group has adopted the following standard (see below) in response to the otherwise neglected organization of SubVI front panels, and all of our SubVI's have this logical layout of FP objects.

So, here's the idea: have a button on the toolbar that "cleans up" a SubVI by organizing it into a "template" based on inputs and outputs as defined by the connector pane. If a FP object is not in the connector pane, place it in Local Data.

This idea could automatically be applied when using the Edit>Create SubVI menu item. The spirit of this idea resides in the fact that I think SubVI FP's should have a logical layout, and such a tool would reduce development time for this repetitive task that I perform on each SubVI I create. (Note that UI FP's do not conform to this standard!)

Please, vote on this idea based on it's merit and your ability to utilize such a tool, not on the template we use. If you like the idea but have a better template, post a picture! (You might even influence the way we make FP's!)

BEFORE FRONT PANEL CLEANUP:

AFTER FRONT PANEL CLEANUP:

[JackDunaway]

When proposed, I considered this as a great one-time time-saver when initially creating a subVI. Today after rearranging about half a dozen FP's with overlapping controls after a large typedef'd cluster change, it hit me that this idea also becomes a very handy maintenance tool.

[drval]

Yes!  Great idea.  Sometimes I think NI's left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing....

[OlivierL]

This still seems to be a good idea to me, even 4 years later.  Has anybody produced a script to implement this feature by now?

-Edit- 

Found the answer at the bottom of this post: http://lavag.org/topic/6395-auto-wire-fp-to-connector-pane-tool-and-more/?p=37340

More official download seems to be located at: http://lavag.org/files/file/128-fp-subvi-fixer-ver-6-lv-2009/

Still, those would be nice features to be part of LabVIEW

[Kristoff2]

Hey guys,

I created a Front Panel Clean-Up quick drop shotcut that use for all my LabVIEW Hacker toolkits.  The utility is part of the 'LabVIEW Hacker Toolbox' and you can see it in action here and installation instructions are here. 

-Sam K

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[தமிழ்நேரம்]

Hi Everyone,

                            I have created similar utility and it cleans up the front panel even if the connector panes are not wired.

Find the similar Utility here

Also you can find the Icon creator and default value setting utility in the  same location.

Regards 

Anish T.

[Siriusly]

A front panel cleanup function would save me a lot of time, even if it only makes all the controls visible in the current window.  Great idea!

[Darren]

Available in LabVIEW 2019 and later. Press Ctrl-U on the front panel to clean it up to match the arrangement of controls on the connector pane. All controls not on the connector pane are arranged below the controls that are on the connector pane.

[Nathan-M]

Can this be done through VI Server/VI Scripting the same way that you can do Block Diagram cleanup?

Nevermind, found what I was looking for:

<LabVIEW Installation>\resource\dialog\QuickDrop\plugins\_Arrange VIWin SubVIs\Arrange VIWin - Arrange FP.vi