Cosmetic suggestions

Question

Before I submit these ideas to the Product Suggestion site, I would like some feedback. I can find out whether my ideas are crazy, whether I have overlooked some easy way of accomplishing these things, or whether the ideas can be refined or improved.
None of these is necessary to make things work, but they would make it much easier for those of us who spend too much time trying to make everything line up, look nice, and be neatly presented.
1. Recent versions of LV indicate the coordinates of the BD window relative to the origin when moving the scroll bars. The FP does not have this option. If the thickened axis grid lines are off screen, you have no idea which way to scroll to return to the origin. FP Property Nodes exist for Panel Bounds and Window Bounds, but no such properties seem to be available for the BD.
My suggestions: 1.a. Show displacement from origin when moving FP scroll bars the same as on BD.
1.b. Provide a means to return either FP or BD to origin with a menu, VI property, or other mechanism which does not require tedious 2D scrolling.
1.c. Regardless of position of objects on FP or BD, allow scrolling toward origin.
2. Make controls and indicators default sizes match the default grid size on the FP. This would make aligning things at multiple edges easier. This could be a new set of controls to avoid breaking existing panels. We have Modern, Classic, and System. The new ones could be "Nit-Picky".
3. Make the default alignment of the digits in numerical controls and indicators Right Justified. This may need to be local sensitive. In United States English numbers are typically written as right justified. Having the controls default to left justified means several additional steps are required to make things look professional. I know I can create custom controls, but you cannot select those for creation from a wire or VI output terminal on the block diagram. At least make it possible for the developer to change the default.
Thanks,
Lynn

Answer 1

johnsold wrote:
3. Make the default alignment of the digits in numerical controls and indicators Right Justified. This may need to be local sensitive. In United States English numbers are typically written as right justified. Having the controls default to left justified means several additional steps are required to make things look professional.
I right-justify for integers and if I use a format with a fixed number of decimal points. The default format is "automatic" with 6 significant digits. Here, the justification is not as important.
I agree that right-justification would be a better default. I typically change it for code that I distribute.
While we're at it, I would also like it if hex and binary formats would (by default) pad with zeroes on the left with a field size correct according to the representation. (e.g. %04x for U16, %08b for U8, etc. If I want to see hex or binary, I want to see all relevant digits!
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