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{{LabVIEW configuration back}}
[[Category:Development Environment]]
This is a list of Miscellaneous LabVIEW ini File settings.

{{ labviewconfigurationkey
| keyname = MRUFolders
| example = MRUFolders=TRUE
| datatype = b
| description = MRUFolders:Most recently used folders. Every time you select a file in a file dialog in LabVIEW, that location (folder) becomes the new top item in the location area (left side of the dialog) of the Windows file dialog.
| permitted_values = TRUE, FALSE
| default = FALSE
| LV1 = 8.2
| OS1 = w
}}
== BldApp.RemovePolyVIsandTypedefs ==
Example: <code>BldApp.RemovePolyVIsandTypedefs=FALSE</code><br/>
Description: Setting this to <code>TRUE</code> stops the LabVIEW Application Builder from agressively removing polymorphic VIs and typedefs that it thinks are not required<br/>
Datatype: <FONT COLOR=#008000>Boolean</FONT><br/>
Permitted Values: <code>TRUE</code> or <code>FALSE</code><br/>
Default Value: <code>TRUE</code><br/>
LabVIEW Versions: 7.x<br/>
OS's Supported: [[Image:logo.Windows.png]][[Image:logo.Mac.png]][[Image:logo.Linux.png]]<br/>
Notes: By default, the LabVIEW 7.x Application Builder does not include type definitions and unused instances of polymorphic VIs into executable in order to decrease size of application. This setting can be changed in the LabVIEW 7.1 applciation Builder in the Application Settings page.
If a VI in your build calls an external VI that uses a type definition in order to pass parameters, and the AppBuilder is unaware of this external VI, it will end in tears.
Also there is one other issue which makes this setting very important. In LabVIEW 7.x, by disconnecting typedefs from controls they did loose their default data and return to LabVIEWs default default data. This could be a major problem if you used strict typedefed clusters on front panels to provide certain default data when unwired and those default data did not match LabVIEWs default default data. This has been mostly fixed in newer LabVIEW versions from 8.0 on.<br/>

== cleanupVisa ==
Example: <code>coerceFromVariant=TRUE</code><br/>
Description: Force variants to automatically coerce to any data type that they are connected to<br/>
Datatype: <FONT COLOR=#008000>Boolean</FONT><br/>
Permitted Values: <code>TRUE</code> or <code>FALSE</code><br/>
Default Value: <code>FALSE</code><br/>
LabVIEW Versions: 7.x, 8.x<br/>
OS's Supported: [[Image:logo.Windows.png]][[Image:logo.Mac.png]][[Image:logo.Linux.png]]<br/>
Notes: Tread carefully, as using this function removes coercion notifivation, and does not useerror handling<br/>

== cleanupVisa ==
Example: <code>cleanupVisa=TRUE</code><br/>
Description: Automatically close VISA sessions - do not require the use of the ''VISA Close'' VI<br/>
Datatype: <FONT COLOR=#008000>Boolean</FONT><br/>
Permitted Values: <code>TRUE</code> or <code>FALSE</code><br/>
Default Value: <code>FALSE</code><br/>
LabVIEW Versions: 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, 8.x<br/>
OS's Supported: [[Image:logo.Windows.png]][[Image:logo.Mac.png]][[Image:logo.Linux.png]]<br/>
Notes: None<br/>

== dropThroughClicks ==
Example: <code>dropThroughClicks=FALSE</code><br/>
Description: Allow drop-through clicks<br/>
Datatype: <FONT COLOR=#008000>Boolean</FONT><br/>
Permitted Values: <code>TRUE</code> or <code>FALSE</code><br/>
Default Value: <code>TRUE</code><br/>
LabVIEW Versions: 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, 8.x<br/>
OS's Supported: [[Image:logo.Windows.png]][[Image:logo.Mac.png]][[Image:logo.Linux.png]]<br/>
Notes: None<br/>

== ExternalNodesEnabled ==
Example: <code>ExternalNodesEnabled=FALSE</code><br/>
Description: Enables use of [[External Nodes]]<br/>
Datatype: <FONT COLOR=#008000>Boolean</FONT><br/>
Permitted Values: <code>TRUE</code> or <code>FALSE</code><br/>
Default Value: 6.x?, 7.x: <code>TRUE</code> 8.x: <code>FALSE</code>?<br/>
LabVIEW Versions: 6.x?, 7.x, 8.x<br/>
OS's Supported: [[Image:logo.Windows.png]][[Image:logo.Mac.png]][[Image:logo.Linux.png]]<br/>
Notes: None<br/>

== ExternalNodeDebugging ==
Example: <code>ExternalNodeDebugging=FALSE</code><br/>
Description: Shows External Nodes for what they are: sequence diagrams<br/>
Datatype: <FONT COLOR=#008000>Boolean</FONT><br/>
Permitted Values: <code>TRUE</code> or <code>FALSE</code><br/>
Default Value: <code>FALSE</code><br/>
LabVIEW Versions: 7.x, 8.x<br/>
OS's Supported: [[Image:logo.Windows.png]][[Image:logo.Mac.png]][[Image:logo.Linux.png]]<br/>
Notes: None<br/>

== hotMenus ==
Example: <code>hotMenus=FALSE</code><br/>
Description: Use hot menus<br/>
Datatype: <FONT COLOR=#008000>Boolean</FONT><br/>
Permitted Values: <code>TRUE</code> or <code>FALSE</code><br/>
Default Value: <code>TRUE</code><br/>
LabVIEW Versions: 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, 8.x<br/>
OS's Supported: [[Image:logo.Windows.png]][[Image:logo.Mac.png]][[Image:logo.Linux.png]]<br/>
Notes: None<br/>

== openInRun ==
Example: <code>openInRun=TRUE</code><br/>
Description: When opening VIs in the development environment, open them in ''run mode''<br/>
Datatype: <FONT COLOR=#008000>Boolean</FONT><br/>
Permitted Values: <code>TRUE</code> or <code>FALSE</code><br/>
Default Value: <code>FALSE</code><br/>
LabVIEW Versions: 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, 8.x<br/>
OS's Supported: [[Image:logo.Windows.png]][[Image:logo.Mac.png]][[Image:logo.Linux.png]]<br/>
Notes: None<br/>

== readOnlyLock ==
Example: <code>readOnlyLock=TRUE</code><br/>
Description: Treat read-only VIs as locked<br/>
Datatype: <FONT COLOR=#008000>Boolean</FONT><br/>
Permitted Values: <code>TRUE</code> or <code>FALSE</code><br/>
Default Value: <code>FALSE</code><br/>
LabVIEW Versions: 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, 8.x<br/>
OS's Supported: [[Image:logo.Windows.png]][[Image:logo.Mac.png]][[Image:logo.Linux.png]]<br/>
Notes: It is important to set this to <code>TRUE</code> when using source code control outside of the LabVIEW environment, so LabVIEW will not allow a VI that is not checked out to the user to be edited<br/>

== showBDConstName ==
Example: <code>showBDConstName=TRUE</code><br/>
Description: Show auto-constant labels<br/>
Datatype: <FONT COLOR=#008000>Boolean</FONT><br/>
Permitted Values: <code>TRUE</code> or <code>FALSE</code><br/>
Default Value: <code>FALSE</code><br/>
LabVIEW Versions: 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, 8.x<br/>
OS's Supported: [[Image:logo.Windows.png]][[Image:logo.Mac.png]][[Image:logo.Linux.png]]<br/>
Notes: None<br/>

== ShowTipStrings ==
Example: <code>ShowTipStrings=FALSE</code><br/>
Description: Display Tip Strips during execution<br/>
Datatype: <FONT COLOR=#008000>Boolean</FONT><br/>
Permitted Values: <code>TRUE</code> or <code>FALSE</code><br/>
Default Value: <code>TRUE</code><br/>
LabVIEW Versions: 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, 8.x<br/>
OS's Supported: [[Image:logo.Windows.png]][[Image:logo.Mac.png]][[Image:logo.Linux.png]][[Image:logo.Sun.png]]<br/>
Notes: None<br/>

== skipNavigatorDialog ==
Example: <code>skipNavigatorDialog=TRUE</code><br/>
Description: Skip the navigation dialog on development environment launch<br/>
Datatype: <FONT COLOR=#008000>Boolean</FONT><br/>
Permitted Values: <code>TRUE</code> or <code>FALSE</code><br/>
Default Value: <code>FALSE</code><br/>
LabVIEW Versions: 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, 8.x<br/>
OS's Supported: [[Image:logo.Windows.png]][[Image:logo.Mac.png]][[Image:logo.Linux.png]]<br/>
Notes: None<br/>

== suppressFileDlgForMissingVIs ==
Example: <code>suppressFileDlgForMissingVIs=TRUE</code><br/>
Description: Suppresses the file dialog for when loading a VI that has missing SubVIs<br/>
Datatype: <FONT COLOR=#008000>Boolean</FONT><br/>
Permitted Values: <code>TRUE</code> or <code>FALSE</code><br/>
Default Value: <code>FALSE</code><br/>
LabVIEW Versions: 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, 8.x<br/>
OS's Supported: [[Image:logo.Windows.png]][[Image:logo.Mac.png]][[Image:logo.Linux.png]]<br/>
Notes: None<br/>

== useNativeFileDialog ==
Example: <code>useNativeFileDialog=FALSE</code><br/>
Description: Use the OS native file dialogs<br/>
Datatype: <FONT COLOR=#008000>Boolean</FONT><br/>
Permitted Values: <code>TRUE</code> or <code>FALSE</code><br/>
Default Value: <code>TRUE</code><br/>
LabVIEW Versions: 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, 8.x<br/>
OS's Supported: [[Image:logo.Windows.png]][[Image:logo.Mac.png]][[Image:logo.Linux.png]]<br/>
Notes: None<br/>

== XNodeWizardMode ==
Example: <code>XNodeWizardMode=FALSE</code><br/>
Description: Allows contextual menus on [[XNodes]] to facilitate debugging<br/>
Datatype: <FONT COLOR=#008000>Boolean</FONT><br/>
Permitted Values: <code>TRUE</code> or <code>FALSE</code><br/>
Default Value: <code>FALSE</code><br/>
LabVIEW Versions: 8.x<br/>
OS's Supported: [[Image:logo.Windows.png]][[Image:logo.Mac.png]][[Image:logo.Linux.png]]<br/>
Notes: None<br/>