Displaying the Last Item in a Ring Control

[jacemdom]

Can someone illustrate me what are the typical use cases of  Show/Hide Last
Item When Running in a ring control?

[altenbach]

Where do you see that option?

[mcduff]

You may/probably need to enable the super secret stuff.

mcduff

[Darren]

It's a new feature in LabVIEW 2020. It's useful for UIs where you want the user to be forced to select something (as opposed to providing a default value which they may overlook and they should change). So you make the last item the default value, and when the user selects the ring, they don't see that value in the list. Here's a screenshot to illustrate it:

The user sees "Select Month", but when he clicks the drop-down, he only sees the months, he doesn't see 'Select Month' in the list. That's because it's the last item in the ring, and the ring has 'Hide Last Item When Running' selected.

[Darren]

P.S. - This feature, and all the other improvements in LabVIEW 2020, is discussed in the LabVIEW 2020 Upgrade Notes.

[jacemdom]

Obviously i checked the help before posting here and there was no use case discussed there. Rechecked before replying this and indeed no use case there.

[jacemdom]

Maybe this should be included in the help file and release notes.

[stevem181]

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@Darren wrote:

P.S. - This feature, and all the other improvements in LabVIEW 2020, is discussed in the LabVIEW 2020 Upgrade Notes.

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I'm having trouble finding the Ring Control "Flavor" property.

 

[GerdW]

Hi Steve,

see here.

It's a shame there is no LabVIEW2020 help available online.

(And I wouldn't call it "discussed" when the Upgrade notes just "mention" some changes…)