Obtaining the current menu ring value from a cluster

[NRC_Nate]

Hi,

I am trying to program a bunch of menu rings to use the same options and disable the same option in the other menu rings if it has already been chosen. It basically works as is right now, but it shows each button as using a "disabled" option because  Im disabling the option even in the buttons that have that value. I did this by using a for loop and property node and DisabledItems[] en masse. Now I want to skip the iteration of the loop for the menu ring which already has that value.

To do this though, I want to obtain the current numerical value of the menu ring and search an array of values. If the menu rings value is in that array, then I want to skip the current loop iteration. The problem I'm having is that when I try to use a property node and set the property to Value, instead of giving me a long 32 type output, it's giving me something called "Variant" which I have not seen before. I also am not sure how to search an array and see if the value I have is in that array. "Search Array" just seems to return an index, I think I want a boolean or something. I'm also not sure how to skip an iteration of the loop (although I imagine it will not be too difficult to figure out on my own, hopefully.)

I apologize if any of this is extremely obvious or if my message is unclear. I just began using LabVIEW a few weeks ago and I'm still learning. I've included an image of my subVI at the bottom.

Thank you,
Nathan

[crossrulz · Accepted solution]

Use Variant To Data to convert the variant to a numeric (whatever representation you need).

Search 1D Array returns -1 if the item was not found.  So you just compare the index with Greater Or Equal To Zero and the result will be if the item was found in the array.

[Jacobson-ni]

Crossrulz is too fast for me (stupid trackpad) but here is a snippet showing what you can do.

Also, if you want to "skip" the loop iteration, you can just use a case structure where you don't do anything on the iterations you want to skip.

Edit: The Error case is just a Clear Error function

[NRC_Nate]

He replied first so I accepted his as the solution, but thank you as well. Really appreciate it.