I’m working on a laptop without an external monitor and fast running out of horizontal space. Wrapping around to a new ‘line’ detracts from the beautiful layout. It would be great to be able to alternatively link two nodes together vertically. I’m imagining either: magic happens - when I drag one no…

The current way has never bothered me and the new way won’t either. I’m more interested in how NR works than how the lines look :stuck_out_tongue:

Looks great :slight_smile: [Extra text to over come 20 char min limit :slight_smile: ]

I think it would be helpful to have Nick's proposed logic available as an option, perhaps in the Settings:View menu. This is not only about making efficient use of screen space in the editor. Having flows well-organized logically and visually makes them easier to maintain, modify, and trouble-shoot. …

Well it was not the intention to distract Nick from his current tasks... For me (personally) the new view looks very nice! But suppose we have a flow like this (in the old view): [image] How will this be represented in the new view: like (1) or like (2)? [image] Because (2) would be confusing …

Is that a herd of hairy Yaks I see approaching ?

@drmibell @BartButenaers thanks for the feedback. Here's a side-by-side comparison of a few more layouts. I think most of them are improved - the only two that are questionable are the top-middle and top-right flows. [NewWires2] The top-middle flow - two nodes that loopback on themselves, aligne…

Nice side-by-side comparison – would you mind exporting those nodes so we could do our own comparisons using the same layout? Or is this already available as a test case in the wiring branch?

Here you go: [{"id":"c2da749a.75ce78","type":"function","z":"d88d0e06.fb719","name":"","func":"\nreturn msg;","outputs":1,"noerr":0,"x":710,"y":60,"wires":[["28b86c82.137014"]]},{"id":"28b86c82.137014","type":"function","z":"d88d0e06.fb719","name":"","func":"\nreturn msg;","outputs":1,"noerr":0,"x"…

FWIW, as an outsider, I like the default wiring. If I have wires under a node, I just spread the nodes apart a bit more, or use link nodes. However, off topic, being able to put a label in a link node would be a huge improvement.

Bravo Nick ! Excellent work ! Two minor suggestions to lighten the HTML source/code: Unless I’m mistaken, you don’t need to draw the Bezier curves using “M C C C C” … you can use “M C S S S” instead like this (beginning at line 545) return "M "+origX+" "+origY+ " C "+…

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