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JackDunaway

Recurse Horizontal/Vertical Alignment for Clusters

Status: New

Going from a purely vertical to a purely horizontal arrangement for clusters can be laborious. It's necessary to find the sweet spot on each 3 pixel border and navigate through two levels of context menus for each nested element:

 

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It would save time to be able to recursively choose the cluster arrangement:

 

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And here's a plug for Add Block Diagram Design for Typedefs, which goes hand-in-hand with reducing the need in the first place to continually rearrange instances of typedef'd cluster constants that have been changed.

4 Comments
RavensFan
Knight of NI

Nice idea, but I don't know how useful it would be for most people.

 

However, I do think that it shouldn't be difficult to write a script to do this to put into the Right Click Framework.  The hardest part would be traversing down multiple layers of clusters, but I believe the schemes to do that are already done with the TraverseRef.llb library.

Intaris
Proven Zealot

I normally want to change the orientation at each level change in this arrangement.  Everything vertical or everything horizontal ends up being huge.

 

I normally go H/V/H/V.....

muks
Proven Zealot

Nice idea. I would use this for sure.

muks
Proven Zealot

This would be especially useful when you are generating your vi from vision assistant. For example edge detection control or the clamp control  will virtually occupy half the screen