This is my first real LabVIEW program. I am looking for IDEAs and preferred pratices of creating programs Attached I have a sub-vi that is called as soon at the user cliscks the start button on the main vi panel. When the user selects a particular size wire the numbers will be filled for both the Force UL and Force ISO from the "Look-UP Table". These values are then passed on to the main vi to operate a hydrulic ram. The array "Table" has four columns and 18 rows. Two of the Boolean "switches" are used to select columns 0 and 1 or 2 and 3. The other switches are used to select the rows. I tried using tabs, clusters, selection boxes, etc, but everything gave me errors. I would assume the errors are cause by my lack of expeirence in Labview. I do a lot of programming in C, C# and VB.net but having a tuff time relating to LabVIEW. What I really want is radio selection style buttons where you can only push one. If the user clicks one and there is already a swith active it turns it on an makes the currently selected switch the active one. The user is required to select the wire size then click if it is a copper or aluminum. When both items are selected the force values are filled from the table and passed on to the main vi. The sub-VI also closes once both selections are made. It would be nice to have this as a menu selection but for now the program needs to be reset everytime the wire size is changed. I have taken LabVIEW Core 1 but that was a year ago and I was not able to do any real world programming until now. I feel like I have forgotten 90% of what I have learned. I want to use the errror clusters too but I had trouble with that and will let that pass for now. David T.

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Boolean Selection of Array Elements

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altenbach,

Thanks for the help. That really cleaned up my mess! I like the radio buttons and I can adapt it to my needs. There is so many ways to do things in LabVIEW but finding the most effiecient is not always the easiest.

Maybe I will be able to pass on the knowledge learned with this example to someone in the future as I learn more about LabVIEW.

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