The objective of this idea is to have a little more control over how wires are visually router so that they can be arranged a little more neatly. Like adding a waypoint on a Google Maps route, you could double-click a wire to add a tie-down, which would be represented as a dot. You could drag the d…

I'm sitting on the fence (and getting splinters). I am not sure this is valid in Node-Red. There aren't busses of wires going from one place to another. And I've found when connecting nodes together NR does a pretty good job anyway. No, it isn't prefect, but it is good. I think that what you ar…

@quarfie this is something that has been discussed in different guises a few times. The main difficulty is that wires do not have properties in the flow file format. So there's no easy way to store routing information without a significant change to the flow file. We do have this proposal being co…

Hi, You can get a 'little' control over wire positioning depending on how much work you want to put into it. You can install node-red-contrib-noop, set the Appearance to hide the label (text), and choose a 'neutral' icon to make it more correct for this purpose. Copy / paste as many as you need -…

[image] paulkeates: node-red-contrib-noop Once again, a Change node with the default rule removed is just as good. There's no need to install an extra node for that.

Just want to propose what I think might be a way to address this... [image] knolleary: The main difficulty is that wires do not have properties in the flow file format. So there's no easy way to store routing information without a significant change to the flow file. ... in case it hasn't be…

That's an interesting approach - not one I had considered. Worth thinking about alongside the junction concept I linked to.

You could also use a similar structure but instead of a series of x and y points, you could set a series of x or y planes. I'm thinking about a diagraming tool like Whimsical, where the lines mostly travel horizontally or vertically, and you can drag segments side to side or vertically to change the…

Hi, Of course you are correct. The only reason I used no-op was to get the neutral gray colour I preferred. This makes it look less like an 'active component' and more like background wiring to me. Change nodes are yellow and I don't know of an option to change the colour (maybe I missed it). I…

Disclaimer: what follow is just a simple proof of concept to play around with the user interaction. It could turn into something. It could turn into nothing. There's plenty about it I like, and a few things I don't. But for a couple hours tinkering on a Saturday evening, I thought it worth sharing. …

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jbudd 5 February 2022 16:20 5

A junction node in a tangle of wires would be a good place for the debug suggestion in this post

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