How does LabView 8 handle Ring constants?

[JasonWB]

That, in fact, is exactly what I have done - I developed a converter to go both ways.  It's a bit of a pain-in-the-butt, but hopefully someday I will be able to just replace the one control with a real enum function and be done with it!

Jason

[Ben]

Hi Jason,

Have some stars for handling that so well!

Ben

[BJK]

Hi,

I totally agree with you!!! I also need "parse enums".

I was struggling with "type def ring constants" and trying to figure out why they didn't update. But reading this thread it all became clear!

Just using the indirect way now!

BJK

[falkpl]

Yes this is one of my main gripes.  I want sparse enums and updatable ring and combo boxes.  One use for sparse enums in programming is bit-flags where each bit has a unique meaning, it is used throughout instrument error control and also extensively for properties in the MFC.  This is fakable because you can use an enum and its value just corresponds to a bit shift (ie a value of 2^n).  This has helped me in the past, but still arbitrary values are not allowed.  I hope this is solved soon because I keep complaining about this deficiency in Labview.

Paul