Concatenate strings vi expanded size or horizontal position options

[j_osh_o]

When building strings from many sources using the "concatenate strings" vi it very quickly becomes confusing and unreadable.  The vi is very small, the inputs are very small, the wires are very close together and require many crossings.  It would be very useful if right click on this vi would bring up an "expanded size" option that would double the size of the input terminals.  Another right-click option that would be useful would be to rotate the vi 90 degrees so that the inputs are on the top.  This way you could arrange your inputs from left to right in the order that you with them to be concatenated, and then wire them to the vi without needing to cross wires.

[dthor]

Try using Format Into String for anything longer than a few inputs. It can really save you space and is more powerful than Concatenate. Put all of your constants, such as delimiters, spaces, underscores, linefeeds, etc., into the Format String and you should save quite a bit of space.

See how much cleaner it is?  (Yeah, yeah, I exaggerated a bit, putting the periods and spaces in seperately. But you get the point I hope 😛 )

Having an expanded size for some terminals might be nice. You can already do this with subVIs by right clicking on them and disabling "View as Icon."

[Darren]

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