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Flow editor

Posted: 09 May 2016 13:23
by Bushmills
Connections between actions and conditions can be manually arranged, by editing, then tapping North/East/South/West anchor point. This is generally necessary when rearranging the flow elements, i.e. when moving them around.
It could be nice to have an automatic mode for this: when moving elements, the connections snaps to the appropriate side, which is the side closest to the element it connects to.
Neatly arranging a flow would be twice as much fun with this (or: only half as tedious).

Re: Flow editor

Posted: 09 May 2016 19:45
by Martin
Writing a proper routing algorithm is very hard to get right so I have decided to go with the manual routing. I'll add it to the todo-list but it will be low priority for now.

Re: Flow editor

Posted: 09 May 2016 20:10
by Bushmills
I didn't think of automatic routing - simply changing the anchor points to the side closest to the corresponding element is what I have in mind.

Re: Flow editor

Posted: 09 May 2016 20:19
by Martin
A few years ago when I experimented with this feature in another tool, it was not really working in a satisfactory way. But I'll add it to the todo-list to check again. The situation was not exactly the same since the shapes and sizes of the objects varied quite a lot so connections jumped around sometimes in undesirable ways. Maybe it behaves better in Automagic.