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Daniel_W

Control-shift-drag to add only horizontal or vertical space to a block diagram or front panel

When you need more room on the block diagram or front panel, you can control-drag a rectangle and white space is inserted. 

 

http://zone.ni.com/reference/en-XX/help/371361E-01/lvhowto/adding_working_space/

 

 

While that is a really useful feature, it tends to create bent wires and insert unwanted whitespace.  More than 90% of the time, what I really want is inserting horizontal space or vertical space.

 

In the two pictures below, I'm control-click dragging to create more space on the right hand side of my for loop.  Before I do this, my 'y' control and '3' constant are nicely aligned, but after control-click-drag, unwanted white space has been inserted.  This problem gets really yucky in large, especially ones that are longer than one screen side, but nicely aligned vertically.

 

 

I propose that in addition to Control-drag creating rectangular white space in a block diagram, Control-Shift-drag would create only horizontal or vertical white space, essentially locking the rectangle to either zero height or zero width.  As it stands, it's a pretty manual and tedious process to move the mouse pixel-by-pixel until I see the dashed lines disappear.

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elset191
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Duplicate of Create Space in One Direction Only

 

Also, as noted there, ctrl+shift+drag is already taken

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Tim Elsey
Certified LabVIEW Architect
Daniel_W
NI Employee (retired)

Looks like great minds like a think, I mean think alike.  🙂

Laura F.
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