Expand ring control or menu control programmatically

[astroboy]

Hi Is there a way how to expand these controls programmatically?

I think it cannot be done, right?

Clement

[TCPlomp]

What do you mean by expanding?

Ton

[astroboy]

This

Clement

[Christian Mergl]

No, there is no property or method for this, even not in scripting.

Well, I have to say, I didn't find one.

Christian

[MarcoMauri]

I think you can expand it by simulating a mouse click on the control:

About simulating the mouse click see here:

http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/C5EDD606E6083DA1862573010001A5BD

and here:

http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&message.id=300976&query.id=2037363#M300976

[Christian Mergl]

Good Idea Marco, this works!

You can then read the position of the control via property node and pass it to the DLL.

The only thing what I don't like is that if the user unintenionally moves the mouse in the same moment you want to click the control programmatically it might not work because of the wrong coordinates.

Christian

[TCPlomp]

AutoIt should be usable to perform a programmitacally mouse-down.

Ton