Quite often I wish to display or hide one control based on the value of another on my GUI, or switch some other property of a control. Also often I use arrays of clusters to handily provide multiple identical control sets- e.g. where I need an identical set of controls for each of a number of I/O channels. This is a very neat way of reproducing the control sets and it's easy to deal with the resulting array on the block diagram. The problem comes when I want to select different properties on the controls on each channel- at the moment I have to either split the cluster array into separate clusters for display (a lot of work, and more messy code) or work around it in another less than satisfactory manor (e.g. hidden tabs to control visibility).
So the suggestion is- allow arrays to have 'pre element' properties, so I can have the advantages of an array of controls with the flexibility to set the properties of each element individually.
I realise there are memory and performance implications here, so there would need to be a special kind of array or an array setting to designate an array as such.
Duplicate of http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Access-a-sepcific-Array-Element/idi-p/1815145