Option to Show/Hide the Iteration and Count Terminals on For Loop

[JackDunaway]

I often make small For Loops using Auto-Indexing, and only occasionally do I use either the Iteration Terminal or Count Terminal. My current practice is to tuck the Iteration Terminal under the Count Terminal just to get it out of the way, shown below. I propose that these two terminals can be shown or hidden (circled in green), just like the Conditional Terminal.

Here's an example of the new lower-profile For Loop with the unnecessary terminals hidden:

[Dennis_Knutson]

I would actually like the count terminal hidden by default. That might stop new users from wiring to it when they should just depend on the auto-indexing feature.

[vitoi]

I would like to see the iteration terminal remain as this is how I identify a For Loop. Even more important for beginners. Even if you make it an option, when I turn it on, on someone else's code, it will hide something of importance.

We need to be careful in our quest for many new features to make LabIVEW only useful for those that have been at it for many years. We need to maintain the great look-and -feel.

[fabric]

On the topic of terminals getting in the way, in addition to being able to show/hide the terminals it would be nice to be able to slide the "N" anywhere along the left edge of the loop. (Too niche? Hope not! )

[elset191]

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@fabric wrote:

On the topic of terminals getting in the way, in addition to being able to show/hide the terminals it would be nice to be able to slide the "N" anywhere along the left edge of the loop. (Too niche? Hope not! )

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Sliding terminal

[tst]

And a more generic solution which would cover both of them, as well as several others - http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Use-a-terminal-block-to-access-the-for-loop-s-data/idi...

[Darren]

Available in LabVIEW 2020 and later. You can right-click a loop and uncheck 'Iteration Terminal' to hide the iteration terminal. National Instruments decided to disallow hiding the 'N' terminal on a For Loop.