Simple idea: Extend the View as Icon mode for clusters constants on the block diagram to cluster controls on the front panel! Simply right click any cluster and select View as Icon to change it from this to this:
We all use clusters on our front panels of our subVIs, but as we add and subtract elements from them, they shift around and start to overlap other controls or they slip off screen. Many times the typedef cluster is used in dozens of VIs. I don't have time to go fix up the front panels of all those VIs everytime I add a new element to the typedef!
Most of the time the cluster is used in a subVI, and I don't care about being able to see the elements inside it. I would prefer in this case just to see the icon on my front panel. In fact, this is one thing I LOVE about using LabVIEW classes! So why not extend that clean view of subVI front panel controls to clusters as well!
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