Allow breaking up long wires with labels in each end

[jpa_]

In electrical schematics it is common to break up long wires with a label in each end. I wish this feature was available also in LabView.

The wire should still work in a data-flow way, unlike local variables. It should also be possible to have many connections to the same wire.

[art_]

I'll chime in on this from the perspective of a LV FPGA user doing DSP. Virtual wires would be a godsend to me. FPGA vi's have a lot of ancillary signals flying around like enables, resets, clocks, triggers, etc. that can rapidly obscure the signal flow that matters and turn your code into a rats nest. And I know it's heresy to say it but bundling things into subvi's and clusters to clean up a block diagram only hides the mess. You end up bundling disparate functions into a subvi and clustering signals that have nothing to do with each other. It makes for very pretty but entirely unreusable code. block-to-block handshaking should understandably be wired directly. But things that originate from far off and branch in a million directions (like resets) badly need this. Virtual wires and good labeling would make things so much easier. Sure It can be abused. But anything can be abused.

[bkardon]

YES! Yes. And yes. And when you hover over either of the labels, it would display a temporary "as the crow flies" dotted line connecting the two labels, and if you clicked on a label, it would jump your view over to the other label.