changing the boolean text of a control programatically

[Reddy]

Hi all

I am trying to have 2 different languages for my application. So i am planning to shift to one language with a single button click. Captions of all controls and graphs on front panel getting changed. My problem is, i need to change the multiple strings in boolean text of a control. This is like, when i click on "start" button, its color gets chaged and display"stop" as on TEXT.  with property node i coulod change only ON text. i am unable to change both the ON and OFF text. 

Hope to get the solution for this.

Thanks all

Anil

[Reddy]

some thing to add to the above question. i Have few so many SUB VIs comes into the picture while using the application, so i am using global variable concept to change the language in those windows also. when i click on "English" button, a number will be saved in global variable, and when i open some window, that checks this global variable first , change all the captions and then display.................

is it OK, or is there any good programming technique for the above.

Thanks

Anil

[Nishant]

Hiii,

             If you are using two different cases true and false then use the property node in the both according to the text require, as you are mentioning the button, you are using the different cases for sure, so do it that way, it will work for sure.

Thanks,

Nishant

[Reddy]

hi nishant

i tried the same, but the problem it is changing OFF text only, it is not changing ON text.

[tst]

Don't use the Boolean Text properties. Instead, you need to modify the boolean's Strings[4] property.

[Reddy]

hi

i am not getting what you trying to tell, can you explain me in detial. How to use this boolean's string[4] property.

Thanks

Anil

[tst]

It's explained in the help for it (just right click the property node and select Help for Strings[4]).

It's an array of strings - one for each state of the button (it has 4 states, yes, although you can't always see them), so you put the right strings in the array.

[Reddy]

hey

It solved my problem.

Thanks

Anil