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GregSands

Always place Error Wires underneath other wires

Status: New

This is a very small suggestion, and hopefully easy to implement.  When wires cross, very often one of the wires involved is an Error wire, and as it is usually wired last, it sits on top of all the other wires.  All I'm asking is that Error wires are always placed underneath all other wires when they are created.  To my mind, this improves the readability of the diagram.

 

ErrorWire.png

 

What would help further is if Error wires were "faded", as if they were 50% transparent.  You do need to be able to see them, but not such that they stand out.  But I'm much less certain that such a change could happen.  The khaki color is an improvement on the old pink though, that's for sure!

 

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Manzolli
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AristosQueue: for me looks easier to figure out the diagram connections when the vertical wires are on top.

André Manzolli

Mechanical Engineer
Certified LabVIEW Developer - CLD
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Curitiba - PR - Brazil
GregSands
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>> BTW, duplicate of this one

 

Now that's strange -- I'd even kudo'd that other idea a long time back.  Oops.

In any case maybe it shows the value of an image to illustrate the idea.

 

>> I don't think I've ever cared which wire was on top of a crossing point.

 

I've never cared about wire order either - certainly not to spend time changing it.  But it occurred to me that if it was done automatically, that would be an improvement.