how do I change the route behavior of wires

[MattI]

How do I change the route behavior of wires to not autoroute in LabVIEW 8, but just simply "obey" me as in LabVIEW 6.

The autoroute often picks routes that are ridiculous or hidden, and I want to turn the feature off, or something like that.

I've tried forcing manually by pinning the wire down, but this doesn't even work if the available area is too small.  Autoroute is forced.

[Sima]

You can disable it in the options:

Tools --> Options --> Block Diagram --> Uncheck "Enable automatic wire routing"

[altenbach]

Maybe your programming style is a bit too cramped if autorouting can never find a good solution and you cannot even tack down a wire because of space constraints. 🙂

[MattI]

I thought I looked there, but when I looked again, there it was as plain as day!

Thanks for going to the trouble of pointing out the obvious!  I didn't deserve it!

[MattI]

I shouldn't have troubled anyone w/ my question, because it was right there under Options... Block Diagram.

Anyway, thanks for replying.  But you've opened up what is sort of a can of worms for me.

I'm sort of not the biggest LabVIEW fan because of the block diagram & pushing pixels around.

I love all the code management features that are builtin (& much improved in LV7 & 8), and all the builtin/available code, so that's why I remain a fan.

But the block diagram is really troublesome to me, because if I:

1. made everything fit on 1 screen by using sequence structures heavily, I have trouble fitting all of the flow control structures (i.e., sequence, while, for & case structures), particularly if I'm writing a user interface & have a lot of Open/Prop...Node/Close -- and especially if they are operating on structures/clusters (i.e., Open VI ref => Property Node/Arr Elem => Close & [ArrElem feeds:] Property Node/Controls[] => More Specific ... => ...

2. don't fit everything in 1 screen, I get lost as to where I am within the flow control structures.

I started out doing #2 for a couple years, then went to style #1.

Any thoughts or articles you can refer me to?

[JLS]

Hello,

If you have trouble navigating a large block diagram, check out the navigation window (<CTRL> + <SHIFT> + N, or click Navigation Window under the View menu (in LabVIEW 8).

Best Regards,

JLS

[MattI]

Hey, the new Navigation Window is neat-o!  Thanks for bringing it to my attention! -- Matt I.

[JLS]

Hello,

Awesome, and I didn't mean to imply that it was new to LabVIEW 8.0 - you'll find it in LabVIEW 7.x with the same keystroke shortcut, but it'll be under the Window menu instead of the View menu.

Glad it helped!

Best Regards,

JLS