How difficult would it be to add some basic drawing tools to the editor? Things like box, circle, text. Perhaps even some colour? Grouping stuff within a tab would be so much easier using visual queues.

I am quite surprised of how little appraisal this has received. This feature would be immensely useful. Also the execution looks extremely polished. Awesome work! I've been wanting to document my flows to assist seeing the logical grouping of nodes. The he existing comment node seems to just clutte…

Agreed, very useful, but other priorities I guess. :expressionless:

[image] ristomatti: I've been wanting to document my flows to assist seeing the logical grouping of nodes. The he existing comment node seems to just clutter up the flow even more so I've stopped using it. It does not visually stand up enough for it to be useful. . There is certainly a bit of…

Some food for thought; It would be great if it was possible to resize the comment node as a "border" around a flow (perhaps with custom background color and hidden icon as it doesn't add much value to the node)

This comes up on a fairly regular basis. However, I think that most of us would prefer a "group" node so that the nodes it contains move about together. To be honest though, even one that didn't interact with the nodes but, as you say, had a resizable border would be useful. Not sure whether it is…

also discussed: [image] Expanding on the Comment node--Creating a node that can be resized? Developing Nodes Use-case: Building a Section node that a flow user can re-size and always is the "bottom-most" node layer of the Node-RED canvas. Users would use this node for de…

I assume that to contribute something of this nature, one would have to know something about D3? I can't imagine it would be that easy to do.

[image] TotallyInformation: However, I think that most of us would prefer a "group" node so that the nodes it contains move about together Yes, but some of us (ok, maybe only me) wanted the ability to be able to "draw" on/in the Editor as well. Nothing fancy, but enough to add text, some flow…

Regarding grouping nodes by using subflows: a had found some ideas on the node-red wiki some time ago, there was this concept of inline-subflows -- I interpreted them as singleton subflows that don't clutter the palette. All in all, some grouping mechanism like that would really increase readabilit…

[image] kuema: be careful not to end up with something like LabView Well, I've only seen LabView once but I was quite impressed, out of my price-range of course :slight_smile:

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