Anchor point for new control/indicator placement on block diagram

[Ben_Phillips]

Hello,

Did a brief search to see if anyone has mentioned this, haven't seen it.

I've always been a little perplexed at where LV decides to place new terminals on the block diagram, which were created from the front panel.  It's almost like a randomizing algorithm was written to make sure that they are placed completely randomly, even to the point that they will show up in various random cases of a case structure.

A very simple solution to this would be to allow the programmer to place an anchor on the block diagram, and all new control and indicator terminals successively are placed down or right of the anchor point as more are added.  

Apologies if this has already been posted.

-Ben

[TomOrr0W]

It looks like NI chose to go with the "off-diagram holding pen" option linked in several posts above instead of this idea for solving this issue (https://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Place-Terminal-in-a-Floating-window-on-Block-Diagram-... is now listed as completed in NXG).

[AristosQueue (NI)]

I agree with TomOrr0W. This should've been closed as duplicate a while ago.

[Darren]

Duplicate of https://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Place-Terminal-in-a-Floating-window-on-Block-Diagram-...