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 demarcating a specific area of interest for the original Flow designer and other succeeding flow designers. This is similar to the comment …

Along similar lines, did anything ever happen with this? [image] Basic drawing tools in NR editor Feature Requests Well, this seems a good time to let (another) cat outta the bag... so here goes nothin'! Earlier this year, I developed a new feature for the node-red Edito…

There have been a number of discussions/suggestions around having additional drawing tools in the editor. Worth having a search for those so we don't have to retread the same points. I think there is a place for some sort of tooling in this area, and there are lots of possibilities. But with the fo…

Hey @knolleary , thanks for the response! If we were to "roll our own" and build out the functionality to support this, do you have a sense of what the Level of Effort would look like? I am assuming you are very familiar with the underlying code base so I'll take that into account, but would be supe…

Anything is possible. It depends if you want to hack it into the editor or collaborate on a more considered approach that is extensible for others beyond just your use case. The hardest part, which I don't see you being able to do from your node's own code, is the layering - having your node below …

Hi Nick, Is there an official features request section on the forum? Home Assistant recently did a WTH where all users were encouraged to make suggestions for additional features ect... I know the development team have limited resources. I'll throw my hat in the ring with a UI based settings.js …

Ahh, forget the last one, just found it!

@dougle03 yes, there is the #development:feature-requests category - a better place to post then in reply to a year-old thread on an unrelated topic.

[image] knolleary: a better place to post then in reply to a year-old thread on an unrelated topic. Hahah for sure... lol

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Expanding on the Comment node--Creating a node that can be resized?

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