Lose control value when tabbing into numeric and exiting by key navigation

[LabBEAN]

The attached VI demonstrates this.

Run the VI, tab into "Numeric", change the value, and Press Enter key.  The value you wrote does not appear.

If you exit by clicking "Stop", the value appears.

Anybody dealt with this without adding loop iterations?  The Tools >> Options >> Environment >> "End text entry with Enter key" doesn't help.

Thanks,
Jason

[LabBEAN · Accepted solution]

Okay, found a work around.  Apply key focus to the Stop button before reading the value of the control.  See attached example.

-Jason

[altenbach]

Well, you should remove the key navigation assignment between "enter" key and the stop button.

Is this all there is to the program, e.g. do you want this to be a popup subVI where you just enter a value followed by the enter key?

In this case, remove the stop button and while loop and just leave the event structure and set the event to "Numeric:value changed".

[LabBEAN]

altenbach,

Thank you for your comments. 

The actual VI is a dialog with multiple controls inside a cluster.  I allow the user to tab through the controls in the cluster (using Dr. Damien's idea), changing any they like.  They press "Enter" at any point to exit the dialog or "Esc" to cancel.  I then update the main code with their settings as well as the INI file on disk.  I sort of like the key navigation assignments (at the moment).  Assigning key focus to the "OK" or "Cancel" buttons before reading the value allows me to keep the key navigation.

 -Jason

[LabBEAN]

As of LabVIEW 2013 SP1 tabbing into a control, changing its value, and using key navigation to exit a dialog still caused the bug mentioned above where the previous value of the control persisted.  I just tried the example posted above with LabVIEW 2014, and I'm no longer seeing the bug.