Custom user input dialog box?

[AdamS]

Hi,

I've been using the Express VI, "Prompt user for input" with checkboxes... it works great for small amounts of selections, but I need the user to pick between 65 choices. I'd like to have a prompt that opens that has a text-ring with all the choices in it (or something like that that would unclutter the prompt and the block diagram).

Is there a way to create a custom user input dialog box?

Thanks a million!

[Joe_H]

Yes you can do this. It is actually just creating a subvi that is set to dialog in the options menu or you can set it however you want. see the labview help and examples and they will show you how to do this. Look up subvi's in the manual.

[LV_Pro]

You can create a sub-vi that is closed until called. Under "Window Appearance" in the "VI properties" there is even a selection called Dialog. You have the sub-vi open when called (and close when released) have a loop that waits for the user to make a selection (and possibly hit enter or whatever to signal that the selection process is complete). You can have a text indicator that is passed values from the calling VI to allow passing messages, etc. If you use an enumerated type for the selections, its value may then be passed back to the calling routine. To see how NI originally did dialogs, open up their "Three Button Dialog" as one example. A dialog box need not be as complex as the "Three Button Core", it was made to be flexible.

Good luck and have fun.

Putnam Monroe

[AdamS]

Thanks all... way easier than I thought. I wound up just saving the express VI as another name and opening its block diagram. Entered what I needed and presto.

Thanks again.