Is there a way to undo the Ctrl+click+drag BD expansion after the fact?

[AMP12]

I had an internet help make some simple code additions for me and in the process expanded my BD to a degree that it is very bothersome to work on.  She left me with a large gap in the center of my code, then saved it.  Is there a method that does the opposite of Ctrl+right click+drag?

I basically need to move half of a state machine loop(s) and all included VIs on that half of the BD at once?  Don't want to manually move 20+ cases worth of VIs individually if I can help it.

Now the real question - Why does an intern have a bigger screen than I do?!?!?

[SnowMule]

roll back to a previous version in source control?

Once it's saved you're pretty much SOL. 

See if the block diagram cleanup makes things manageable. :dunno

[smercurio_fc]

You might want to Kudo the idea for it: http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Contraction-shortcut-opposite-of-Ctrl-Shift-drag/idi-p...

[Yamaeda]

If you're lucky the code cleanup tool (ctrl+u) can help.

/Y 

[AMP12]

Block diagram clean up doesn't work, it actually makes things worse.  Too much done already to revert back a version.

If nobody else has any ideas, I'll just deal with it in the mean time and make her fix it later.

[jcarmody]

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@AMP12 wrote:

[...]  and make her fix it later.

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And take away her large monitor.  When I was an intern we didn't have large monitors, we programmed using...  Ah, forget it; you kids wouldn't understand.

[Wayne.C]

I'd be tempted to take the intern's large monitor away and then ask them to correct the problem.  I think I've got an old EGA monitor around here somewhere. 

[smercurio_fc]

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@jcarmody wrote:

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@AMP12 wrote:

[...]  and make her fix it later.

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And take away her large monitor.  When I was an intern we didn't have large monitors, we programmed using... 

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An Etch-A-Sketch?

[jcarmody]

[JÞB]

ctrl+u  can be tuned in the LabVIEW ini to provide better results.  I have not found a magical setting for it yet.  (My BDs don't usually get too bad)  but I think a reasonable BD Clean-up is achievable with some persistance (try it- undo -reset- try it again)  Take snapshots along the way.  Perhaps even try 1 setting Optomized vertically and reset to optomized Horizontally and clean again.  (That technique seams to hold the most promise IMHO.)

Now, What were you doing giving a chunk of code to an intern WITHOUT a style guide requirement and supervision?

see post 17 here  You are not alone