Custom Boolean breaks my event structure

[Philipps]

Thats what I was looking for, you helped me solve my Problem. I was just following the average tutorial how to customize a control, most of them just tell you to make a type def out of it.

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@crossrulz wrote:

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@billko wrote:

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@crossrulz wrote:

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@Philipps wrote:

I created OK Buttons and hooked them up to my event structure, but when i changed one of them to a custom button the connection broke.

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Stupid question: Why did you make a Boolean a type def?  I would change that to a control so that the button is no longer getting its value type from another file.

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If it's been customized, why not?

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Because it is still just a Boolean.  Type Defs are really made for custom data types, which I generalize down to enums and clusters.  When you just want a special looking button, you make the ctl a control.

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[Philipps]

After you guys helped me understand how to make custom controlls I found this in the LabView help and that was what I was looking for the whole time.

https://zone.ni.com/reference/en-XX/help/371361R-01/lvhowto/custmzng_cont_ind_fp/

[altenbach]

My impression so far was that you had problems with events, not with customizing a control. Two very different things!

[Philipps]

I had problems with my event structure because of the type def booleans, but I actually dont need to type def them to customize them. I just found some bad advice when I looked for solutions online how to change button appearences.