Hi @scadabob - welcome to the forum!
Could you give an example of the type of thing you had in mind here? Do you mean a tooltip to show the basic description of the node (ie what the info/help sidebar shows when a node is selected) or something more particular to how a node is configured etc?
For the wire colouring - do you mean to show activity on the wires?
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