Add remove/rewire shortcut that doesn't do a wire cleanup

[croohcifer]

Related to the recent topic of ctrl+shift+w doing wire cleanup, I would like to see a default version of ctrl+r that does NOT do a cleanup on my wiring.  In other words, if I start with code like this:

And then select "Undeploy Project.vi" and type ctrl+r, I get this:

This is a basic example, but I've seen really goofy rewiring when you have lots of non-railroaded methods tied to the same class wire or reference.  I've taken to first deleting the reference wire branch that connects the VI I want to remove to the main class/ref trunk and then selecting the VI and hitting ctrl+r so that I get this:

If I then click that top wire and do ctrl+u, I get the wacky wiring in the middle screenshot, so I assume ctrl+r is doing a cleanup after deleting the VI.  My manual workaround is a little tedious, and I often forget to do it and end up doing a lot of ctrl+z.  I'd like to see ctrl+r do the noninvasive wire remove (screenshot 3), and then maybe make ctrl+shift+r do the remove+cleanup (screenshot 2).

David

[Darren]

I must admit, I often cringe when I'm about to do Ctrl-Space, Ctrl-R and realize that it's gonna clean up wires I don't want it to clean up. But I'd say that's the minority of the time...most of my Ctrl-Rs, I'm happy for it to clean up the wires.

Since Ctrl-Shift-R already does some special stuff (remove structure, remove unused inputs of growable functions), what if I made it so that if you type 'w' in the Quick Drop text box before pressing Ctrl-R, it will refrain from doing a wire cleanup?

[croohcifer]

Yeah, as long as there's a way to do it, I'm all for it!

[Darren]

Ok, barring catastrophe this change will be in LabVIEW 2020. If you want to try it now in LabVIEW 2019, replace the following files with the ones attached to this reply and if you get a chance to try it out, let me know how it works for you.

resource\dialog\QuickDrop\plugins\Remove and Rewire.vi

vi.lib\Utility\QuickDropSupport\Remove and Rewire Objects_core.vi

(standard disclaimer: backup shipping LabVIEW files before replacing them, etc. etc.)

[croohcifer]

Thanks Darren!

I only have access to 2018 and earlier.  If you can backsave to 2018, I'd be happy to test and provide any feedback.

David

[Darren]

Sure, here they are saved in LabVIEW 2018. Let me know how it goes.

[croohcifer]

Works so far.  I'll stress test it on some odder wiring schemes and let you know if there are any niche cases.

Thanks again!

[crossrulz]

I just took them even further back to 2016, which is the version I am actively developing in at the moment.