I created an editor inline gauge however there are some interface elements that are rendered underneath my canvas output, the mouse cursor changes to the move cursor when I mouse over however I can't click or drag on the node. In my opinion it would be a great feature to allow nodes to have custom …

BTW not sure but perhaps there is an extra advantage of such a visualization inside/on-top-of the node: because it 'might' also still work fine with the current auto-layout algorithms. Because those algorithms take into account the area of the node.

I've thought a lot about the "editor is not a dashboard" idea over the past 12~18 months and I think it makes a lot of sense, but I also disagree with it because of the same factory paradigm as johnebgood. Were NodeRED state-based rather than message-based, inline UI would be a no-brainer. For NR th…

I think, at a simple level, its nice to be able to see your code and view a "dashboard" on the same web-page I come from Scratch/Snap! and that's exactly what we do [image] But, I genreally just do home IoT with NodeRED and the debugger and node status do most of what I need/want I can see it w…

[image] jackcarey: the user would explicitly have to enable each one. Yes I totally agree that by default the nodes should look like today, and the user explicit needs to activate the inline visualization. That way the flow editor 'by default' will still be not a dashboard. Unless the user …

[image] jackcarey: I've thought a lot about the "editor is not a dashboard" i The main objection is “ do you really want to allow users access to the editor/admin side of the application. While Node-RED is indeed often used in “simple” home automation tasks, if it is used in “ production” how…

For the past 8 years, I've dissed the comments "the editor is not a dashboard" at every opportunity, but now I'm beginning to eat my words....

I think this becomes especially important for the use cases where flows are operating only as a backend (no dashboards needed). One could argue it's actually a bit backwards to default on text-based debugging in a visual programming environment and I'd personally love to have discrete visuals withou…

[image] Paul-Reed: but now I'm beginning to eat my words.... Paul, So I assume you don't like the proposals being made here? I have a lot of interest in this discussion, because currently some users - like me - already use this kind of nodes, but we have to find a lot of workarounds to get …

[image] BartButenaers: there were 57239 downloads in the last 365 days. I think that number speaks for itself... Not that impressive Bart... I got 32,875 from node-red-contrib-simpletime, and I'm not even a developer... I do like some feedback in the editor, but should be discreetly, like n…

[image] BartButenaers: 57239 downloads in the last 365 days vs 1.3 million for node-red and over 100 million on docker :slight_smile: . As I said, while I can’t see a mainstream use case I certainly can see utility for debugging, so I’m not totally against the idea, just not sure what is stop…

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Sure, I made a thread here: Third-party UI in ui-builder

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