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jlokanis

Place case selector anywhere other than the middle of the left case border

Status: New

This is a small thing but it drives me nuts.  Whenever I place a case on the diagram, I always need to move the case seletor up or down so it aligns with the source output that will be driving the case.  But, the newly placed case always has the seletor right in the middle of the left side.  This is also where the drag hover control (?) is located.  I seem to at least 50% of the time grab this drag control when I want to grab the case seletor and move it.  If the selector was just placed above or below the middle of the left side, this issue would go away.  I suggest placing it 1/4 of the way from the top, since most of the time the source of the selector is above the midpoint of the case block (at least in my code).  YMMV.

 

I know it is a nit, but it is low hanging fruit to fix and it is annoying.

-John
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Certified LabVIEW Architect
4 Comments
Daklu
Active Participant

I agree... it's one of those things that annoys me when I encounter it but not enough to remember to post on the idea exchange.  😉

JackDunaway
Trusted Enthusiast

I'll link to a related post from a while back, and show the picture here also. The IPE structure suffers a similar annoyance:

 

IPEResize.png

Yamaeda
Proven Zealot

Even better would be the possibility to r-click and select a standard placement.

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altenbach
Knight of NI

> This is also where the drag hover control (?) is located.  I seem to at least 50% of the time grab this drag control when I want to grab the case seletor and move it.

 

I am not sure if anything changed, but whenever I place a case structure, the selector terminal is slightly offset from the right-center resize handle. (This is in 2010).