Comenting code - style - how to keep coments where you want them - without using sequences

[wideofthemark]

Silly question maybe about style of commenting.

Basically i like to use sequence boxes to keep comments on my diagram beside the bits of code that they refere to - otherwise when you use diagram cleanup (which i'm afraid i use all the time) they go anywhere.  This is good - except that i found especially when doing FPGA programming the sequence boxes reduce the amount of parralelism that can go on - since the 'box' needs to finish before any of the outputs can be used.  Is there some other method i should be using instead of sequence boxes to keep text beside elements - without enforcing that a set of elements are fixed in one place?

[mikeporter]

Learn to create code properly the first time o so you don't have to use block diagram cleanup as a crutch.
Mike...

[altenbach]

I usually use labels of structures (loops, cases, etc) and labels of diagram constants, etc. for comments. In newer versions, we also have wire labels.

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What is your LabVIEW version? Also the LabVIEW 2011 cleanup does a better job keeping diagram comments together with the related code compared to earlier version.

[SteveChandler · Accepted solution]

You might want to vote for this idea. The flat frame decoration under the structures pallet is better for highlighting a section of code than a sequence structure. Of course it won't enclose the code and the bd cleanup will mess you up. I personally don't use bd cleanup often but when I do it is only to clean up a selection. Never the whole thing otherwise I have more work to do.

I am pretty OCD about bd neatness but recently I have started to just not worry about it very much until the VI is almost done. Only then do I make sure there are no one pixel wire bends, subVIs are aligned and spaced perfectly, and comment boxes are in the correct location.

[wideofthemark]

Thanks for all the answers.  I guess that what i was hoping existed doesn't exist as yet.

Thanks though for pointing me towards the idea exchange thing - looks to me like something like this http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Advanced-Code-Commenting-Functionality/idi-p/1452396 is pretty much what I would like. 

Hopefully NI will look at it for releases soon(?)

Untill i does I guess i shall keep using the sequence\label methods, and happily hitting cleanup as often as I can.  Us cripples need our crutches!