Auto-populating of Case structure by Combo box

[mrkvolf]

Hello,

I miss auto-populating of Case structure by Combo box. What about you?

It works for Enum or Ring. But not Enum.

[AristosQueue (NI)]

If the type of the wire changes so that it is carrying additional information, it becomes a language construct. I was looking at it from that point of view, but, you are correct, the feature as requested is just an editor feature.

[mcmaxer]

A solution which can save you a lot of time if the Combo Box has a lot of entries.

Place a Text Ring on your panel.

Then place a Strings[] Property read for your Combo Box in your diagram, and route it to a Strings[] Property write for the Text Ring.

Run the code.

Go to your front panel and right click the Text Ring. Replace it with an Enum. Note that the string values are kept.

Go back to your panel, and connect the enum (labeled Text Ring 🙂 to a Case Selector.

Choose Add Case for Every Value.

Now you can delete the enum, and route your Combo Box to the Case Selector.

You can use this method for any String bound Case Selector, where you have an array of possible selections. It saves you a lot of time.

[tst]

If you're really doing this often and want to save time, you could also write a Quick Drop shortcut to do this which you invoke on the case structure. It would have to trace the input to the selector back to the control (assuming it is a combo box control) past tunnels, etc., and then get the list of values from the control and add missing cases to the structure.

Or you could automate the process you just described. Either way, not code I would want to write, but it could help you if you do this a lot.

[Darren]

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