Coordinates of array elements

[_Ian_]

Hi,
I'm playing around with mouse click coordinates, mostly because its Friday afternoon but also because it might be useful

In the attached code I wish to click on one of the strings of my array control and find out which element in the array it corresponds to. (This will later be used to fire up other bits of code depending on the array content)

I can use the position of the array and the coordinates of the mouse and it all works fine.
BUT... only if I select the zeroth element before I run the code. If I select any other element then run the code I get erroneous results.

So - is there a way to acquire the coordinates of the zeroth element of my array regardless of what the user has just done?

I can think of workarounds using the coordinates of the array control (instead of the string coordinates) but this is affected by the control label size/visibility so feels less reliable.

Using version 8.5.

Thanks,
Ian

[TCPlomp · Accepted solution]

There is a utility VI from the LAVA repository located here.

That deals with this problem:

Ton

[_Ian_]

Thanks - that does the trick.

I guess its a well thought out version of the "workaround" I'd decided I didn't like...

Cheers

Ian

[dacad]

That vi is the bomb !!

The one thing that could make it better would be if you could make the cursor change to a pointer instead of the text bracket.   Have not investigated this yet but if I discover how to fix this, I will post it.

[Pierre_F]

great VI, thanks for this!

also, I could use it with multicolumn lists (with some little mofifications)