radio button selection, deselecting others

[dgholstein]

My experience with "radio" buttons in GUI libraries is that selecting one in a group deselects any other button in that group -- kinda like a car radio (hence "radio" button).  How do we do that in LabView?  I thought I had seen a property to do that (though I may have been using some other GUI at the time)

   ...Dan

[Darren]

Hi Dan,

If you are using LabVIEW 7.1 or later, you can use the Radio Buttons Control in the Boolean palette to accomplish exactly what you're looking for.  If you're using a previous version of LabVIEW, you will have to write the underlying code to do this selection/deselection yourself...I'm sure you can find an example of how to do this on these forums somewhere.

-D

[MPython]

He's right.  I had to do this very thing with 6.1, but didn't want to use a classic control like regular Windows radio buttons.  I can't remember where I found the example, but I do know it uses shift registers and clusters (a cluster of the set of controls).

[dgholstein]

Thanks guys -- I've found some examples in LabView 7.0.  Not very pretty, but it works.

   ...Dan

[Dennis_Knutson]

Are you sure you are looking at the correct example. In 7.0, there are radio buttons controls in \examples\general\controls\booleans.llb. The 2 Radio buttons-5 Radio Buttons.ctl are custom controls and don't have any code at all.