I've actually tested this in labview 7.1 and the problem is still appears. When I tested Mike Siebel's package using 7.1 I don't see the problem. Anyone else have any ideas, or why dialog tab has a problem?
Thanks for the great example illustrating the behavior! I was able to reproduce it and I passed it onto our R&D department so that they can investigate it. In the mean time, the best workaround is to do exactly what you did in your example -- avoid the RingText.Text property and instead use the Strings[] property indexed to the current value. The Strings[] property returns the correct value regardless of whether the enum ring is visible on the front panel. Thank you so much for reporting the behavior and keep posting!
Regards,
E. Sulzer Applications Engineer National Instruments