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Avoiding port connection

Asked by Jordi Coll

As for a better standardization, it could be possible to avoid connecting ports and only leave a little text into the connection port. In the PLC software it works in this way. With this idea, you wouldn't have to draw a lot of lines to connect every port.

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Frederic PO (fredericp) said : 		#1

We should open a blueprint to design this feature

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Matias (llentiesmatias) said : 		#2

Yes I'm agree to open a blueprint, but I think that with this idea, we lose information about the design, isn't it? Because you cannot see where the ports are connected to.

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Jordi Coll (jordi-coll-corbilla) said : 		#3

Well, using my own experience working with PLC software, we use to create TAGS. Every tag can be defined as "Read", "Write" or "Read/Write". (Sometimes de read type is implicit into write type). Then, when we create a "Box" we connect on the inputs a "label" that points to the defined Tag.

Internally, you know which of them are Inputs, Outputs or temp variables because they are allocated in memory. I can send you a picture showing the desired (or possible) drawing if you want.

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