Allow the wires to go trough the arrows of free text

[TimBotsM]

In LabVIEW 2013 a new feature was introduced, the arrow connecting free text and code objects. However when you try to route a wire trough the arrow the LabVIEW routing goes nuts and try's to avoid the arrows at all cost.

A picture to show what I mean:

The highighted wire (yellow-red) is routed from "Start Location" to "End Location" by LabVIEW. However I would like to see somehting more like the blue line since this makes more sense. If I want the blue wire I have to manually move the wire since the rouring can't handle the arrows of the free text boxes.

[X.]

Turn off "Enable automatic wire routing" in Options>>Block Diagram

[ouadji]

@X : Turn off "Enable automatic wire routing"

ok, it works ... but if you "clean up wire" ... the result is catastrophic.

The arrows of free text should be "transparent" for wires. (kudos)

[X.]

Never, ever, use "clean up wire"! Nuf said... 🙂

[tst]

OK, X. is against it, so I guess that means I have to vote for it...

[X.]

I am not against a cleverer interface, but I was just checking that the OP knew about some possible alternatives.

There is anyhow plenty of stuff to be debugged with the new comments, so why not throw that in the mix.

It is fundamentally a bug, IMO.

[jecortez]

Hello!

So this does appear to be a bug in the way the wire routing algorithm treats the bounding boxes created by the Attachment arrows. I've created a CAR for this issue, and will try to work on it for 2014 (though I can't make any promises :P). For future reference, the CAR number is 432824.

Thanks for finding this issue!

[Darren]

Will be tracked with CAR 432824

[Thoric]

Was about to create this Idea myself, glad the search tool found it for me!

[Jeff-P]

CAR 432824 discussed in this thread was fixed in  LabVIEW 2014.  For a more complete list of bugs fixed in LabVIEW 2014, check the LabVIEW 2014 Bug Fixes. You can download an evaluation copy of LabVIEW 2014 at www.ni.com/trylabview/ or if you have an earlier version of LabVIEW installed and an active SSP subscription, you will be able to download the latest version of LabVIEW through NI Update Service.

Regards,

Jeff Peacock 

Product Support Engineer | LabVIEW R&D | National Instruments | Certified LabVIEW Architect 

[TimBotsM]

Hi Jeff-P,

If I do a search trough the list of fixes in LV2014 I can't find this CAR number.

Can you calarify this?

TimBotsM