Why faster?

What slows us down?

Agenda

• Reducing clicks
• Little-known IDE features
• Reinventing the wheel

Click Less, Do More

Quick Drop

Drop Items

Curated list of object shortcuts available here (credit: Darren)

Adds things like 'cs' for case structure.

'Cheat sheet' generator available in the comments:

Contributors: MikaelH, Brian Hoover and dpnsw

Do Anything

Super-easy to create plugins to automate laborious tasks

Favourites:

- Create Place VI Contents VI

- Insert on multiple wires

- Remove and rewire

List of >50 community contributed shortcuts

Example: Custom VI Tile

Tidbits

Place VI Contents

Quick Drop Shortcut

Ctrl-Clicks

Wiring

Suspend When Called

String Formatting

Cluster + Type Def --> Class

Reinventing the Wheel

OpenG

Tremendously useful set of reusable VIs.

Array and String palettes are enough motivation to investigate it!

Hidden Gems

Not fully documented or supported by NI, lives in vi.lib

Useful palette for:

• Variant / string manipulation
• Dealing with libraries / projects / LV file types
• VI scripting / Icon API
• Timing / manipulating LV *.ini file

Source: Hidden Gems in vilib.pptx