Yes , it does give you some pointers and VI's to work with. but i was making a general question. how do you get access to properties that are not in the drop down list. also I see nothing about how to change the menu bar to a different langauge on the fly. And one more point, since all the controls have a caption and normally you want to change it also. would it had been better to make that reentrant. so you could process it better. Sometimes as Labview seems to advance so things take a step backwards on others.