Replace Enum with Tab and Vice Versa

[P@Anand]

It would be really nice to have a feature to Replace an Enum with a Tab and the Tab control contains the items which was configured in the Enum control. This would work the either way by replacing a Tab with an Enum containing the Items configured as Tabs. This makes sense because both are of the same data type.

[johnsold]

What would happen with a tab control which contained other controls? Where do those controls go?

Lynn

[Intaris]

I'm with Johnsold,

I don't see any real-world value in this.

[JimChretz]

I agree with you guys but P@Anand is techically correct.

Right now if you create a constant from the tab Terminal, it will create an enum constant which can be turned into an enum control... P@Anand is just trying to get rid of the intermediate constant step.

If you delete the tab terminal, it will also delete all the controls who belong to the tab. I'd expect the same behavior with the requested feature, it would delete the controls within the tab and create a new enum control.

I think it could be usefull to quickly create the enum typedef that matches with your tab control. But as it doesn't happen everyday, I'm perfectly fine with the intermediate constant step and I'd prefer NI engineers to work on more useful features.

That being said, the enum->tab makes much sense, so I'm upvoting.

[Intaris]

Would the option of linking a tab to an enum typedef not be a far more manageable solution?

[AristosQueue (NI)]

> Would the option of linking a tab to an enum typedef not be a far more manageable solution?

YES. That seems much MUCH better. I'd go so far as to say that type and UI should be separated so that you could define different UIs for the same type... for enums, that would allow one that is the ring and one that is the tabs. I think there's an idea around on the Exchange already for that.

[Darren]

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