State Machines

[crossrulz · Accepted solution]

Do you have the AutoTool on?  If not, you need to hold down Ctrl to get a little hand cursor and click on the enum.

If you go to View->Tools Pallet you will see a little window like this:

If the top button is selected, then you will have the AutoTool on.  Most of us recommend having it on.

[MLD]

when I click on the enum constant it just highlights it and doesn't give me the option for different values which I setup "First state" and "Second state" it just simply highlights it.

[MLD]

crossrulz thanks that was exactly my problem wow I feel dumb. Ravens fan I am a fan as well but I am also a Bills fan being from New York Thanks for all your help everyone!

[RavensFan]

Then you want to turn on the auto-tool.  For some reason you have it turned off.  Shift right-click on your block diagram.  When the cursor palette comes up, the green light at the top is off.  Click it to turn it on.

[Yamaeda]

It's actually quite easy for that to happen, as you switch editing modes with Tab, and many are used to tab to switch fields or similar.

Shift-tab should reset it to auto-tool also.

/Y 

[Mark_Yedinak]

---

@Ravens Fan wrote:

Then you want to turn on the auto-tool.  For some reason you have it turned off.  Shift right-click on your block diagram.  When the cursor palette comes up, the green light at the top is off.  Click it to turn it on.

---

I'm still old school and leave it turned off all the time. I started LabVIEW without it and old habots are hard to change.

[RavensFan]

---

@Mark_Yedinak wrote:

---

@Ravens Fan wrote:

Then you want to turn on the auto-tool.  For some reason you have it turned off.  Shift right-click on your block diagram.  When the cursor palette comes up, the green light at the top is off.  Click it to turn it on.

---

I'm still old school and leave it turned off all the time. I started LabVIEW without it and old habits are hard to change.

---

That's fine for you.  As you've said, you learned to use LabVIEW without it.

For new users as this poster is, I recommend that they use it.  Obviously he ran into problems because it wasn't turned on.

[Mark_Yedinak]

---

@Ravens Fan wrote:

---

@Mark_Yedinak wrote:

---

@Ravens Fan wrote:

Then you want to turn on the auto-tool.  For some reason you have it turned off.  Shift right-click on your block diagram.  When the cursor palette comes up, the green light at the top is off.  Click it to turn it on.

---

I'm still old school and leave it turned off all the time. I started LabVIEW without it and old habits are hard to change.

---

That's fine for you.  As you've said, you learned to use LabVIEW without it.

For new users as this poster is, I recommend that they use it.  Obviously he ran into problems because it wasn't turned on.

---

I agree. I was not trying to suggest he shouldn't use it. This one falls into the "to each his own" category. I was merely saying there are still some of us old timers stuck in our ways. I've tried the auto tool but I wasn't able to adopt it for myself.