How to creat a menu ring with items that have sub menu items?

[BryanL]

Hi All, I need to have a drop down menu ring with items that will have their own sub menus.  Is this possible?  Thanks in advace.

[Darren]

This is not currently possible with the normal Ring control in LabVIEW.  I think I've seen examples on the forums before of tricks that people have done to try to achieve this functionality, like moving hidden controls around that simulate the appearance and behavior of ring lists.  Another possibility might be to construct an XControl in LabVIEW 8.0, although I've not yet heard of anyone using XControls to simulate pull-right ring menus.  Yet another possibility would be to use the custom run-time popups feature in LabVIEW 8.0, although this only applies to pop-up menus, i.e. the menus you get when you right-click a control...it sounds like you're looking for menu ring behavior, i.e. the list you get when you left-click a ring.

Good luck,
-D

[BryanL]

Hello Darren,

Thanks for your reply and ideas.  What I am looking for is something like what we use every day on "LabVIEW" itself, i.e., on LabVIEW front panel, when you need to change a fond size, it will allow you go to the font menu and chose different fond size. I guess "LabVIEW" itself was not written in LabView....just wish there was something like a menu ring will provide the functionality...

Bryan

[unclebump]

Try this thread.

http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&message.id=187023&query.id=98814#M187023

[BryanL]

Thank you so much, it looks like it axactly addressed my need.