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Improve alignment for VIs with 5335 connector pane

Submitted by Active Participant on ‎09-12-2013 11:16 PM 11 Comments (11 New)
Status: Declined

National Instruments will not be implementing this idea. The terminal heights for subVIs will not be changing in LabVIEW, and the terminal heights for all terminals in LabVIEW NXG is 10 pixels, regardless of how many terminals are on the subVI. Since subVI connector panes can be resized horizontally in LabVIEW NXG, it should be easier to maintain a consistent height for all VIs in an API so that common terminals always align.

We've all seen it: The annoying 1-pixel bend when wiring between VIs with mismatched connector panes. Many ideas have been proposed to address this on a small scale... But I think it can easily be improved on a much larger scale.

 

IDEA:

Modify the way the 5335 connector pane is rendered so that the top and bottom terminals line up with those of the standard 4224 connector pane.

connectorpanes.png

 

In case the image doesn't say it all, all I'm proposing is that the top-left terminal of the 5335 connector is made 1-pixel larger by stealing 1-pixel from the terminal below. Likewise for the top-right, bottom-left and bottom-right.

 

The obvious benefit is that it becomes much neater to wire errors and references between mismatched VIs. Goodbye OCD! Smiley Very Happy

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Darren
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‎02-02-2018 03:56 PM
‎02-02-2018 03:56 PM
Status changed to: Declined

National Instruments will not be implementing this idea. The terminal heights for subVIs will not be changing in LabVIEW, and the terminal heights for all terminals in LabVIEW NXG is 10 pixels, regardless of how many terminals are on the subVI. Since subVI connector panes can be resized horizontally in LabVIEW NXG, it should be easier to maintain a consistent height for all VIs in an API so that common terminals always align.

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