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Yeah I thought about this as well and is something I originally imagined as a cool feature.

The problem, though, is that not everyone will create a sub-layer for every component. It'd be a bad user experience for the viewer to have to just try clicking components to see which ones work, and I don't want to modify the look of the diagram, from what the author intended, to add some visual indicator that it's clickable.




Please do reconsider adding a visual indicator. Direct manipulation is a powerful UI technique and helps retain user focus. It could be something as simple as the mouse pointer changing when hovering over a component that can be drilled down into.


Hovering the navigation on the left could also highlight all linked components as well, giving a better sense of what you can drill into (without having to discover for yourself by moving your mouse all over the diagram).


This is an excellent suggestion, I might just do that. Thanks!




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