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Jeff-P

Keyboard shortcut to re-center your view on your block diagram and front panel

Status: New

Sometimes when you are working on your block diagram or your front panel you accidentally scroll off screen or are in a different position and would like to snap your screen back to center on your code instead of scrolling all the way back. Having a built in keyboard shortcut would be really nice for this.

 

 

For example, I click and drag to select something and accidently go too far.

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Now I can press a keyboard shortcut to return to my original code view

 

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To handle cases where the block diagram is bigger than one screen, it could snap so that the top left corner of the visible screen is aligned with the highest and leftmost element on the block diagram.

 

As an extension of this idea - it would be nice in some cases (especially LabVIEW FPGA when you have many parallel loops) to be able to set certain points on your block diagram that you can snap to and have your screen center on that point. However I am hesitant to post this as a seperate idea because it has the potential to be misused by people who develop massive spaghetti code block diagrams.

 

Thoughts?



2 Comments
dthor
Active Participant

This would be very nice for those of use who are obsessive about where things are with respect to the origin...

 

Kudos!

CMal
Active Participant

There is a QuickDrop shortcut that does this here.  I find it very useful.  It works on both front panel and block diagram.