Automatic wiring

[pavanb]

To increase wiring productivity especially as the diagrams/distances are large and the connection straightforward. Would same a lot of time with the code I am working on now.

Text based languages have this advantage over Labview with just an = sign. X = Y. 

[Dragis]

I think I somewhat understand your proposal, although I think there are a lot of details to work out. How does LabVIEW know of the terminals to connect. Is it by vertical alignment? What if several are in the same "heuristic" position?

Also, I don't understand your thought on text-based languages as you only show a one variable assignment and you still had to "type" the "=". Wouldn't this idea mean you would only type the variable names and then the editor would automatically insert the "="?

[Intaris]

I personally could imagine something like the following:

When we wire a single element to the bundle function it is done as normal.  When we (before doing any other wiring functions at all) go to wire the second, a key modifier should, combined with a click on the control we want to wire, automatically go to the next "iteration" of the previously connected item.  In essence, the IDE would store the last wiring operation and in the case of items which can be "iterated", the key modifier would allow this operation.  Instead of telling LV to wire for us, we simply connect one wire and the other units are connected with a simple click each.

[pavanb]

Thanks. Good suggestions for NI development. 

@Dragis I mean it is much faster to type = (or do a regular expression based add/replace) than to wire. Productivity is on my mind.

[Darren]

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