LabVIEW configuration file/Miscellaneous

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This is a list of Miscellaneous LabVIEW ini File settings.

ActiveXMoreContainerOptions

Example ActiveXMoreContainerOptions=FALSE
Description Adds "Persist State To Edit Mode" and "Destroy And Recreate When Run" to the Advanced submenu of an ActiveX container[1]
Datatype Boolean
Permitted Values TRUE or FALSE
Default Value FALSE
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BldApp.RemovePolyVIsandTypedefs

Example BldApp.RemovePolyVIsandTypedefs=FALSE
Description Setting this to FALSE stops the LabVIEW Application Builder from aggressively removing polymorphic VIs and typedefs that it thinks are not required
Datatype Boolean
Permitted Values TRUE or FALSE
Default Value TRUE
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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.


coerceFromVariant

Example coerceFromVariant=TRUE
Description Force variants to automatically coerce to any data type that they are connected to
Datatype Boolean
Permitted Values TRUE or FALSE
Default Value FALSE
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Notes Tread carefully, as using this function removes coercion notification, and does not use error handling


cleanupVisa

Example cleanupVisa=TRUE
Description Automatically close VISA sessions - do not require the use of the VISA Close VI
Datatype Boolean
Permitted Values TRUE or FALSE
Default Value FALSE
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Notes None


defaultConPane

Example defaultConPane=4833
Description Sets the default Connector pane layout for new VIs
Datatype I32
Permitted Values
Default Value (4815)
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Notes None


dropThroughClicks

Example dropThroughClicks=FALSE
Description Allow drop-through clicks
Datatype Integer
Permitted Values TRUE or FALSE
Default Value TRUE
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Notes None


EnableStrictTypedefConstantConfiguration

Example EnableStrictTypedefConstantConfiguration=FALSE
Description Adds a new context menu item to constants based on strict typedefs called Act as Strict Typedef Constant. [1]
Datatype Boolean
Permitted Values TRUE or FALSE
Default Value FALSE
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ExternalNodesEnabled

Example ExternalNodesEnabled=FALSE
Description Enables use of External Nodes
Datatype Boolean
Permitted Values TRUE or FALSE
Default Value 6.x?, 7.x: TRUE 8.x: FALSE
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Notes None


ExternalNodeDebugging

Example ExternalNodeDebugging=FALSE
Description Shows External Nodes for what they are: sequence diagrams
Datatype Boolean
Permitted Values TRUE or FALSE
Default Value FALSE
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Notes None


GenericsAreGo

Example GenericsAreGo=TRUE
Description Adds a context-menu item to controls and indicators labeled "Generic". This activates an abandoned feature in LabVIEW enabling the creation of "Generic VIs". If a control marked "generic" is connected to a VI's connector pane, it will automatically change to whatever type is wired to it; an indicator marked "generic" shows similar behavior with its block diagram terminal. If this just sounds like Malleable VIs with extra steps, that's because this is an unfinished prototype of what eventually became that. Using them is a BAD IDEA, unless you just want to experiment with it as a curiosity. NI staff have warned against using this in any kind of production code, as it is very buggy, abandoned for a reason, and can corrupt VI's. Use Malleable VI's instead; they do the same thing much better without using buggy unfinished features.
Datatype Boolean
Permitted Values TRUE or FALSE
Default Value FALSE
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Notes None


hotMenus

Example hotMenus=FALSE
Description Use hot menus
Datatype Boolean
Permitted Values TRUE or FALSE
Default Value TRUE
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Notes None


MaxHelpDescLength

Example MaxHelpDescLength=8000
Description Maximum number of characters that will be displayed before truncation in the Context Help
Datatype Integer
Permitted Values
Default Value 8000
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Notes If set to a non-positive number, then there will be no max. If set to 50 or less, then 50 will be the max


MRUFolders

Example MRUFolders=TRUE
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.
Datatype Boolean
Permitted Values TRUE, FALSE
Default Value FALSE
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Notes


openInRun

Example openInRun=TRUE
Description When opening VIs in the development environment, open them in run mode
Datatype Boolean
Permitted Values TRUE or FALSE
Default Value FALSE
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Notes None


readOnlyLock

Example readOnlyLock=TRUE
Description Treat read-only VIs as locked
Datatype Boolean
Permitted Values TRUE or FALSE
Default Value FALSE
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Notes It is important to set this to TRUE 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


showBDConstName

Example showBDConstName=TRUE
Description Show auto-constant labels
Datatype Boolean
Permitted Values TRUE or FALSE
Default Value FALSE
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Notes None


ShowHiddenLibraryItems

Example ShowHiddenLibraryItems=FALSE
Description Shows hidden library items (for example when editing a statechart library). [1]
Datatype Boolean
Permitted Values TRUE or FALSE
Default Value FALSE
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showNoNavDialog

Example showNoNavDialog=TRUE
Description Prevents the "Getting Started Window" dialog from appearing
Datatype Boolean
Permitted Values TRUE or FALSE
Default Value FALSE
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Notes Source: NI Knowledge Base ( http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/841B934909D863C886256F62006AC243?OpenDocument )


showRunAtAnyLoopMenuItem

Example showRunAtAnyLoopMenuItem=FALSE
Description Adds a new menu item to Property and Invoke nodes labeled "Run At Any Loop". When selected, the node turns brown as if a private property or method was selected, even if none are. [1]
Datatype Boolean
Permitted Values TRUE or FALSE
Default Value FALSE
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ShowTipStrings

Example ShowTipStrings=FALSE
Description Display Tip Strips during execution
Datatype Boolean
Permitted Values TRUE or FALSE
Default Value TRUE
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Notes None


SimShowCompanionDiag

Example SimShowCompanionDiag=FALSE
Description Adds a context menu option to the Simulation structure called "Show Companion Diagram", which toggles showing what looks like a "behind-the-scenes" block diagram for the simulation. [1]
Datatype Boolean
Permitted Values TRUE or FALSE
Default Value FALSE
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skipNavigatorDialog

Example skipNavigatorDialog=TRUE
Description Skip the navigation dialog on development environment launch
Datatype Boolean
Permitted Values TRUE or FALSE
Default Value FALSE
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Notes None


SuperSecretPrivateSpecialStuff

Example SuperSecretPrivateSpecialStuff=TRUE
Description Exposes private properties, method and events in the IDE
Datatype Boolean
Permitted Values TRUE or FALSE
Default Value FALSE
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Notes Not supported by NI, this is not a scripting method.


suppressFileDlgForMissingVIs

Example suppressFileDlgForMissingVIs=TRUE
Description Suppresses the file dialog for when loading a VI that has missing SubVIs
Datatype Boolean
Permitted Values TRUE or FALSE
Default Value FALSE
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Notes None


useNativeFileDialog

Example useNativeFileDialog=FALSE
Description Use the OS native file dialogs
Datatype Boolean
Permitted Values TRUE or FALSE
Default Value TRUE
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Notes None


useUnicode

Example useUnicode=FALSE
Description Enables Unicode characters in LabVIEW. [2]
Datatype Boolean
Permitted Values TRUE or FALSE
Default Value FALSE
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Notes Unicode is not fully supported in LabVIEW. Use with caution!


userVIsAppearFirst

Example userVIsAppearFirst=TRUE
Description Makes the user VIs appear first in the tool menu
Datatype Boolean
Permitted Values TRUE or FALSE
Default Value FALSE
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Notes Unfortunately this option no longer works in LabVIEW versions 8+.


viTitleInPalettes

Example viTitleInPalettes=TRUE
Description Displays window titles instead of VI names in functions palettes. This key is set by the Use window titles in functions palette option in the Controls/Functions Palettes category of the Options dialog.
Datatype Boolean
Permitted Values TRUE or FALSE
Default Value TRUE
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XNodeDevelopment_LabVIEWInternalTag

Example XNodeDevelopment_LabVIEWInternalTag=True
Description Enables XNodes to be edited and created within LabVIEW.
Datatype Boolean
Permitted Values TRUE or FALSE
Default Value FALSE
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Notes This configuration key does not work on Windows, as on that version it is enabled via an "XNodeDevelopment" license which is only available to NI employees; thus, there is no way to access this functionality on the Windows version without violating the license agreement. When enabled, regardless of OS, "XNode" will appear in the File->New dialog.


XNodeWizardMode

Example XNodeWizardMode=TRUE
Description Allows contextual menus on XNodes to facilitate debugging
Datatype Boolean
Permitted Values TRUE or FALSE
Default Value FALSE
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Notes None


MaxGSWRecentProjects

Example MaxGSWRecentProjects=10
Description Allows more projects to be added to the Getting Started Window
Datatype Integer
Permitted Values 1 to 10
Default Value 2
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Notes None


operateCursorRunningVIs

Example operateCursorRunningVIs=TRUE
Description Changes the default cursor on running VIs to its behavior prior to LabVIEW 2012
Datatype Boolean
Permitted Values TRUE or FALSE
Default Value FALSE
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Notes None


useNewProjWiz

Example useNewProjWiz =FALSE
Description Set to FALSE to make the Create Project menu items (in File and Project) open empty projects instead of launching the Create Project dialog.
Datatype Boolean
Permitted Values TRUE or FALSE
Default Value TRUE
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Notes None


QuickBold

Example QuickBold=TRUE
Description When editing text (either on the block diagram or the front panel) Ctrl-B allows you to toggle bold on or off. (When not editing text, Ctrl-B still performs it's normal function: remove broken wires.)
Datatype Boolean
Permitted Values TRUE or FALSE
Default Value FALSE
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ShowConsoleForPythonNode

Example ShowConsoleForPythonNode=TRUE
Description Shows the output from Python when a Python Node executes.[3]
Datatype Boolean
Permitted Values TRUE or FALSE
Default Value FALSE
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