LabVIEW
Create grid of buttons returning number when pressed
Solved!
It would help to do a "save for previous", (2020 0r below) before attaching. Most here (including me!) don't have LabVIEW 2025 installed.
What are the requirements?
- Should each button have it's own name?
- Can it be a 2D array of buttons?
- What mechanical actions is required?
- Can only be one or can multiple buttons be true at any given time?
- Must at least one be true?
- The most flexible would be a cluster of buttons, but that's a lot of menial work. I cannot tell what you tried.
- Instead of "herding" 100 buttons. I might use a 2D picture where you parse the mouse down coordinates and update the picture accordingly.
OK, I had a quick look at your VI and you only seem to allow one "kanal" to be active. (buttons are latch action)
Here's equivalent code:
You don't need the timeout event, it does nothing useful.
They already had the complete cluster.
I wish there was an easy way to directly convert a cluster of boolean controls to a radiobutton control...
Creating a cluster control (or radio button control) with 100s of individually named and labeled buttons is just way too tedious and inflexible.
As mentioned earlier an image would be much more scalable. All we need is a reusable subVI to create the "image" of a button array and now we have full control over size, #of rows/Columns, button labels, button and text colors, button sizes, fonts, etc. etc.
If the first click should instantly exit the subVI with the selection, the code would be even simpler! (not shown)
For a more general case, it would be easy to recreate the image with each mouse interaction, e.g. to toggle the color of the clicked "button". The possibilities are endless.
