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Tables controls feel unintuitive

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As it stands, the table control feels very unintitive to me. People are used to the look/feel of Excel - selecting entire columns or rows, deleting multiple rows at once, deleting sections of data, row/column numbers, etc. LV tables seem to have none of this "default" functionality.

 

Why does this matter?  I have found that sometimes you just get bad data... someone trips over a wire, your thermocouple bugs for a second, you start the test too soon, etc. I have had several applications that the most conveniant way I can think of to manually edit data is an Excel type table.

 

In the past, I have added in extra buttons to the side of the table in order to replicate SOME of this functionality (delete selection, delete selected columns, delete selected rows) but have found that the application users end up confused by it. They want to select something, right click, and hit "delete row". It isn't intuitive!

 

Does anyone have a better way to provide manual data editing?  (Or perhaps a way to programatically make table controls more intuitive).

 

-M

 


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