Flow editor

Post your feature requets for new triggers, conditions, actions and other improvements.

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Flow editor

Post by Bushmills » 09 May 2016 13:23

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).

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Re: Flow editor

Post by Martin » 09 May 2016 19:45

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.

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Re: Flow editor

Post by Bushmills » 09 May 2016 20:10

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.

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Re: Flow editor

Post by Martin » 09 May 2016 20:19

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.

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