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Connection Highlighting - Haloing

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  • May 9, 2019
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When a Translation is very involved and contains multiple transformers, organizing it on the canvas in a way that does not tangle connections is sometimes difficult. Hidden connections and/or tunneling are options, but not always the best as sometimes you would prefer to see where the actual connection(s) lead visually.

What if the ability to "Halo" a connection line with a color could help differentiate connections that cross over one another. The connection line would still be black or grey showing that it is enabled/disabled, but a 1 or 2 point line of 50% or greater transparent color straddling both side of it would make it stand out.

Give the user the ability to choose, the color, transparency/opacity, and width and they are set. It is a "creature feature" and does not improve performance or anything technical. But, the value of assistance in "self documentation" of a workspace is great.

See Example Below:

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chriswilson
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  • May 13, 2019

mark2atsafe
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It is, isn't it. And I have to say that I quite like this halo idea. I've made a comment to our developers to see what they think is better.