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In the string constant you are able to make a scrollbar visible but this is still inconvenient when only see 2 lines of your whole string when you have a string constant of 50 lines or so... and you 9 out 10 times you don't want to create a bigger field because it messes with your diagram.
Therefore a small popup with a only a large textfield would grately simplify things.
I'd like to see the ability to collapse string constants to an icon like we can in LV2010 with Clusters. Strings for dialog-type messages and the like often take up inordinate amounts of BD space, and rarely do you need to view or edit them, its usually a constant into a one-button dialog, inside a case structure. Double-clicking the icon-ized constant could open up a window with a nice big textarea control for editing.
Now I think of it the same also counts for big array constants... Maybe there should be a list which should have the feature to collapse constants to a small icon;
- Cluster (already done)
- Array
- String
- ..?
I believe nothing else is needed... Those three elements take the largest space in blockdiagrams.