LabVIEW
ZOOM
@NIquist wrote:
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Bottom Line:
Zooming out is useless: Don't rely on the block diagram to be an overview of your code. That should be done with a flowchart or state diagram in your documentation. Your BD should neatly fit on on page.
Zooming in is useless: Does anybody REALLY have trouble clicking the right place on a connector panel??? I've been using LabVIEW for almost 15 years and can't remember a single time I've had trouble wiring anything regardless of the connector pane or screen resolution.
Out: 95% of BD's fit nicely, but a typical main gui with a producer consumer (often enough 2 consumers) is typically a little bigger. Making any solution with .net nodes quickly grows to a couple of screens wide, as i assume you know.
In: Several times a week i get a broken wire due to connecting to the wrong input, so it happens often enough. A previous coworker had shiver issues making it hard for him to even hit the right cell in excel. He wasn't a LV programmer though, but i assume it's only for the physically fit with perfect color vision ...
Regardless, would you lose sleep if others were able to zoom the BD, Nyquist?
/Y
Here's a revolutionary idea, but it would probably need some good graphics acceleration and fancy coding:
Why not have the diagram at 1/4 scale if we want to see the entire code, but have it at 1:1 scale around the mouse cursor to precisely wire connectors. It would look similar to the famous balcony drawing by MC Escher. The "bubble" center would follow the mouse.
That's different to using the Windows built in magnifier how?
(Apart from artistic flair, of course 
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@Sam_Sharp wrote:
That's different to using the Windows built in magnifier how?
Which post are you referring to?
@BowenM wrote:
@Sam_Sharp wrote:
That's different to using the Windows built in magnifier how?
Magnifier is 1:1 with >1:1 inside the window. Proposition was 1/4:1, with 1:1 inside the window.
The magnifier is a seperate window that potentially overlaps with the real diagram. The suggestion happens entirely in the diagram window.
@Yamaeda wrote:
Regardless, would you lose sleep if others were able to zoom the BD, Nyquist?
/Y
Not unless it costs me new enhancements that I want added. 
My concern is that it's a feature that could very well require substantial development effort on the core of the language. Such effort should be spent making LabVIEW more powerful and useful, especially for the professional user. If Zoom & Pan is quick and easy to implement and wouldn't take time from other more important enhacements I'm fine with it. However, I suspect if it were that easy, it would already be a feature. As I said, I love a good zoom and pan interface. (I just l zoomed in my browser display to write this! Wheeeeee!) I just don't want to pay for it by losing out on other things that are far more important. I guess we'll just have to wait and see what NI decides...
