.NET Enum Selection

[aayre]

Hello,

I have a .NET class that defines an enum, e.g.:

public enum Devices
{
  FOO = 1,
  BAR = 2,
  BAZ = 3
}

How can I provide a way for the user to select an item from the enum? Ideally using a Ring, but a text box with the name would work OK.

Currently the only way I can think of is to add a new function to the .NET assembly that uses reflection to accept a name and give a value, then attach the function call to a text input, but ideally I would prefer to solve this in LabVIEW and not change the assembly.

Note: the real enum has 200 entries, and is frequently updated. I don't want to hard-code it into LabVIEW.

Thanks!

[tyk007]

You can use the BCL static method Enum.GetNames() to get a list of strings for each enum that you could use to auto-populate the ring at run-time.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.enum.getnames(v=vs.110).aspx

To make things easier you could add this as a public method to your .NET assembly so that your LabVIEW code can retrieve the list and update the ring.

[aayre]

Thanks for replying. How do I bind the ring to the list?

[OEM_Dev]

Ues the strings[] property

http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/FB0409491FAB16FA86256D08004FCE7E

[aayre]

Great, thanks!