Auto-wire bug when dragging/dropping?

[BrotherTom]

Hi everyone

I just found out that if I have this diagram:

and drag/drop the "equals" into the case structure, the auto-wire function will create a new input tunnel to connect the constant there. The shift register will then be void:

I think it should be normal behaviour the leave the shift register wiring as it is.

Is this a known issue?

Greetings!

[Ben]

I seem to remember some wizard speaking about similar issues.

But I am limited in what I can say.

Ben

[Frozen]

What version of LV are you using?
In LV 2016, if I drag the equal function inside the case structure, it disconnects and breaks the line. And yes, I do have auto-wire enabled.

[RavensFan]

Not breaking a wire when dragging a function across boundaries is a feature added to one of the more recent versions of LabVIEW.  Either 2017 or 2018.

[Ben]

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@BrotherTom wrote:

Hi everyone

I just found out that if I have this diagram:

and drag/drop the "equals" into the case structure, the auto-wire function will create a new input tunnel to connect the constant there. The shift register will then be void:

I think it should be normal behaviour the leave the shift register wiring as it is.

Is this a known issue?

Greetings!

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I found the other place where I saw this issue and there was not a good demo of that problem so a CAR was not generated for it.

I flagged a moderator to get an AE to look at this because I was able to duplicate that VI and saw the same bug.

Ben

[billko]

I really don't care for auto-anything in LabVIEW.  It never seems to auto-whatever the way I expect it to.

[BoKnows]

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@BrotherTom wrote:

Hi everyone

I just found out that if I have this diagram:

I think it should be normal behaviour the leave the shift register wiring as it is.

Is this a known issue?

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This is a known issue being tracked by CAR 718913

[MichaelBalzer]

Agreed on the auto-things not behaving as desired. I've been adding this collection of keys to labview.ini to try maintain a less automatic and much snappier development environment. Info on each key can be found in this github gist.

LiveDrag=False
LiveSelection=False
DragAutoWire=False
SmarterAutomaticTunnelCreation=False
AutomaticShiftRegisterCreation=False

[BrotherTom]

Hi folks

Sorry for replying so late!

Indeed it's a pretty new feature. I use LabVIEW 2017 and cannot remember this feature in older versions.

Good thing that a CAR has already been registered. I haven't found anything of it, neither in the web nor in the forums.

Keep up the good work!

Thomas

[paul_cardinale]

I hate the 'Maintain Wire Connections' bug (NO!! IT'S NOT A FEATURE, IT'S A BUG!!).  I wish I could turn it off.  Even in those cases where it would be handy, I don't use it* because it tends to rearrange wires idiotically.

* I copy then delete instead of moving.