The standard LabVIEW listbox control has very archaic icons. So I made some improvements. You can use this control as a direct replacement for the standard control, but it looks a lot better. This takes advantage of the properties for the listbox to load your own custom graphics. Download VI: ListBoxIcons2.0.vi

One rule to remember when designing a user interface is to do things in standard ways. For example, if you want to close a program in Windows, you click the red X button in the upper right-hand corner of the window. Most LabVIEW™ have a tell-tale “Stop” or “Done” button. That always bugs me. Why [...]

You can quickly place a VI onto another VI by dragging it from the icon pane and dropping it onto the destination VI. Dragging works from the icon pane on either the Front Panel or the Block Diagram, but you can only drop onto another VI’s Block Diagram.

You can quickly flip through all the frames of a structure by holding <Control> and using the mouse scroll wheel. This works for Case Structures, Event Structures, Stacked Sequence Structures, even Diagram Disable Structures.

You can get quick access to the LabVIEW Tools palette by holding <Shift> and right clicking. The Tools palette will pop up next to your cursor. Simply make your selection and the palette will go away.