Not seeing block diagram when opening vi

[Placebo]

Hi,

This is trivial but frustrating. When I open a vi I see the front panel, and then have to press ctrl E to see the block diagram.

Can anyone tell me if there a way of opening the vi and seeing both the front panel and block diagram immediately ?

Many thanks,

[PJS]

Press control when you double click the sub-vi and that will open both the FP with the diagram on top. On windoze

[smercurio_fc]

Note that the above only applies to opening VIs from the block diagram of another VI. It does not work when opening VIs from the file system or from projects/libraries. For alternate solutions, see page 2 of this thread.

[Placebo]

OK ! I can see this question has occupied quite a few people in the past.

The concensus seems to be that using File, Open it is not possible to open both the Front Panel and Block Diagram, but when I open the Tutorial, this is exactly what happens !

See New vi from Template, Tutorial, Generate and Display.

Is there something special about the NI Tutorial examples ?

[smercurio_fc · Accepted solution]

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@Placebo wrote:

Is there something special about the NI Tutorial examples ?

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No, but there is about the dialog window. That's a custom window (a LabVIEW VI, actually) that creates a new VI from a template, and then uses the VI Server to automatically open the block diagram.

[Placebo]

I understand. Probably using CTRL T is as easy as anything. Thanks for you help.