Why do property nodes expand "down"? Is there a way to make them expand "up"?

[Mike_Le]

This has been bugging me about property nodes for a while, and I was wondering what the reasoning is. Why do property node entries expand downward?

This means that if I ever want to read or write a property node value, I'm almost always crossing over an error wire. Of course if you're wiring from one property node to another, there isn't crossover, but there are tons of cases where I'm wiring to sub-VIs, into shift cluster data, etc.

LabVIEW coding guidelines are all about minimizing wire overlap, but here we have something that makes that intrinsically impossible at least half the time they're used.

So, what was the reasoning behind property nodes being "special" in terms of their error in/out being at the top instead of the bottom?

[altenbach]

Your only point seems to be the location of the error terminals with respect to the rest of the property node.

If you think you have a better idea, feel free to post the suggestion in the LabVIEW Idea exchange. Create some graphics to show us how you think it should look like instead.

See if you get any votes. 😄

(Also do a search: htere are some remotely related idea such as this one.)

[Mike_Le]

I guess I figured it's been this way for so long, there must be some logic behind it!

[paul_a_cardinale]

Now that you mention it, this does seem better:

[Darin.K]

http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Property-Node-Error-Input-and-Output-on-the-bottom/idc...