Add Right Click Menu option to "Find Objects at Edge" for Auto Grow Structures

[NIExpert]

It would be nice to easily find objects that prevent a structure with "Auto Grow" from becoming smaller in size.  For example, the Add function in  the True case in the simplified example below.

[tst]

Should be reasonably easy to build yourself as a plugin: when invoked on a multiframe structure, iterate through all the frames, then iterate through all objects in the diagram to check their position and bounds and populate a listbox in a popup window sorted by the distance to the edges and then use the highlight method to move through the elements or skip the popup and just highlight the closest element when the plugin is invoked.

[NIExpert]

easy is relative.   seems like a couple hours effort at least 

[wiebe@CARYA]

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@NIExpert wrote:

easy is relative.   seems like a couple hours effort at least 

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Yes, time passes at least 4X faster when you do scripting 😆.

In this case, you'll loose time on the FlatSequence(Frame) mess, if you'd choose to support it.

[tst]

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@NIExpert wrote:

easy is relative. seems like a couple hours effort at least

Well, it's a couple of hours now or wait N years for NI to maybe do it (which would probably be the exact same plugin). It's a matter of how much you want it and how much you enjoy writing scripting code.