I remember a very not well known feature of FPGA development that I used that I can't seem to get to work so I'm wondering if NI removed it.
Lets say you have alot of FPGA controls on the front panel of your FPGA. Normally on the host side to read or write to these controls you get a single big list that pops up when you click on the Read/Write Control. The order that the controls appear in the list is newly created controls appear on the buttom. So you have to slowly scroll through all the other controls to pick the one you want. There is plent of room for clicking the wrong one especially if names of controls are very similar.
To fix this in the past you could take multiple controls, and have them share the same start of the name then seperate it with a dot (period) and group them on the front panel. Then on the host side these controls would be grouped into a sub item similar to a nested cluster. I attempted this today on 2011 SP1 and my names don't group together like they did.
Just to be clear what I am saying is if I had the following controls:
UUT 1.Signal 1 High Time
UUT 1.Signal 1 Low Time
UUT 1.Signal 2 High Time
UUT 1.Signal 2 Low Time
And then grouped them on the front panel, on the host side these controls would be in their own category named "UUT1" with the other items beneath it. Did anyone else see this functionality in the past? Did NI remove it? Thanks.