Stacked shift registers - improved graphics

[SteenSchmidt]

Hi,

Extracted from this idea is here a suggestion for improved artwork of stacked shift registers:

On the left is how stacked shift registers currently looks like, on the right the suggested graphics instead. The reason behind the idea not so much the smaller footprint, but more that it today is hard to distinguish between a stacked shift register and several single shift registers close together.

Cheers,

Steen

[vitoi]

If the current spacing is 16 pixels, I would like to maintain it so things line up.

[SteenSchmidt]

I know many things do line up this way in the LabVIEW BD, but there are many exceptions as well. I think Property nodes and cluster elements are 15 pixels, right? Is it really important?

/Steen

[GregSands]

Property nodes and clusters are font-dependent, unfortunately.  It would be nice if everything was defined around multiples of 8 pixels though.

[Jokelnice]

This idea seems ideal to keep the code organized and identify the number of iterations.

[X.]

...and add an indication of which one is the first and which one is the last value in the stack. I never remember which is which after a while...

[altenbach]

The vertical pitch can stay the same, but I do like that it is visually much easier to tell that it is an expanded single register as opposed to a stack of three different shift registers (without having to look at the right loop boundary, of course).

[X.]

... and allow labels, pretty please?

[SteenSchmidt]

@X: Then you should vote for this idea.

/Steen

[Darren]

Changes present in LabVIEW NXG. Shift registers with stacked elements have a different appearance than individual shift register terminals. 

[Darren]

Here is a screenshot: