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smmarlow

New Arrangement Options for Cluster Autosizing

Status: New

Arranging clusters horizontally and vertically using the autosizing feature is nice, but it leaves much to be desired.  It only aligns objects on the left vertically, and top horizontally. I often find myself switching to "size to fit" of "none" if I want to align the objects on centers.  But then I have to do a little dance when I add an element.  I propose 6 arrangements: three vertical, and three horizontal, using the familiar arrangement icons as shown below:

 

newauto.png

 

The autosizing algorithm in LabVIEW should also ignore element labels when arranging/aligning the elements to make life easier.  

3 Comments
GregSands
Active Participant

I could use that.  In addition, what about being able to ignore the labels when setting the alignment?  Then one could (for example) right-align the controls, with the labels "ragged" further to the right.

altenbach
Knight of NI

I agree this would be an improvement.

 

(I hinted at a similar idea in my comment here)

ClaudioH
Member

I would like to have an option to define the number of columns and / or lines of cluster elements.

 

Many times I spent a long time making adjustments because keeping just in one column or line let the UI ugly and the matrix look is nice.

 

Cheers.

CHCastro