Cleaning up your flows

Midio contains a bunch of commands for aligning and distributing nodes and arrows that help with making your node graphs tidier.

Aligning nodes

The selected nodes can be aligned to the top, bottom, right or left by using the using shift-w/a/s/d

• shift-w - align top

• shift-s - align bottom

• shift-a - align left

• shift-d - align right

Distribute nodes

The selected nodes can be distributed vertically or horizontally using shift-q/e.

• shift-q - distribute horizontally

• shift-e - distribute vertically

Aligning arrows

You can also align on arrows, which means moving the nodes it connects to so that the line becomes level. To do this, select a node and use either shift-w to move the bottommost node up, or shift-s to move the topmost node down.

Group nodes by converting them to a function

Selected nodes can be converted to a reusable function by right clicking one of the selected nodes and clicking 'Convert to function'. The nodes will then be moved to a function (which you can give a custom name) and replaced by an instance of that function. Any arrows to and from those nodes will be automatically hooked up, and the behavior of your application stays intact.