Selectable clean-up area

[Mads]

The clean-up feature that was introduced in LV 8.6 can sometimes do wonders, but very often it fails miserably on parts of the code...

It would be nice if it was made possible to select just an area of the diagram - or a structure (one particular case in a case structure e.g.) - and apply the clean-up algorithm only to that part.

[Darren]

It would not be unreasonable to expect to see a feature along these lines in a future LabVIEW version.

-D

[Mads]

It's there in LV2009 now yes, that is great, but unfortunately the implementation is not as it should be.

The problem is that when you select an area to clean up the clean up should never (ever) be allowed to affect anything outside the selected area (the user did not "ask" for that).

Let's say that I have made a perfectly layed out code...but in the middle of the data flow there is one case structure that is messy. So - I select the case structure and expect this to leave the surrounding code absolutely untouched...but what happens? It allows the "interface" between the selected code and the rest of the code to be modified, and messes up what was already good code - that was not marked for clean-up(!).  A very bad behaviour.

Please rewrite this so that it keeps the interface to the rest of the code fixed.

[JackDunaway]

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Mads wrote:

The problem is that when you select an area to clean up the clean up should never (ever) be allowed to affect anything outside the selected area

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Yes! The entire comment you just wrote belongs in the body of the original Idea. Or even better, you should create a new Idea, Mads. This original Idea (written before LV2009 was released) could be considered "Completed" and the new Idea becomes relevant with the current BD Cleanup Tool.

***EDIT: In other words, your comment does not deserve to be "hidden" in an outdated Idea because it's relevant to LV2009 and I think potentially popular. I rarely use BD Cleanup on a container because the change in size of the boundaries of the container is undesirable and unexpected.***

Message Edited by JackDunaway on 06-03-2010 08:38 AM

[Mads]

Thanks Jack, I've subitted it as a new idea here.