Block Diagram Documentation Node

[Lewis_G]

Hi all,

I often find when programming with LabVIEW that I don't have room on my block diagram for free label documentation.  I find it hard enough trying to keep clean and tidy code and even harder document it well.  Free labels take up lots of room and I end up not writing good documentation because I don't have room for it.

My solution to this problem is a Documentation Node where you can write comments in a free label, minimize it and use context help to read it in the future.

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[tst]

This has been suggested multiple times. For example:

http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Description-and-Tip-like-Help-Hint-Comments-for-Block-...

http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/comment-icon-for-large-comments/idi-p/2011722

http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/pop-up-comment-on-Block-Digram/idi-p/998374

Also note this idea, which is similar (although not identical) and was shipped with LV 2012:

http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Collapse-Lengthy-String-Constants-to-an-Icon-like-LV-2...

[Lewis_G]

Hopefully we will see this soon

[SnowMule]

VI Properties -> Documentation ?  Kind of the same thing, no?

Other thing I've done is set the comment to "vertical arrangement" -> "clockwise".

The code should somewhat document itself, I think yours does that well without all of the comments.

But to shrink down a large-ish comment block would be nice.  +1 for the idea.

[Darren]

Duplicate of http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Description-and-Tip-like-Help-Hint-Comments-for-Block-...