mechanical action property

[Electrode Man]

Hello Labviewers

Does anyone know if this is possible:-

Two buttons, one button changes the mechanical action of the other button.

i.e button 1 is false then button 2 acts as a switch, button 1 is true the button 2 act as latch.

I want this in order to have one button that saves data in different ways, i.e button 1 could be 'save by pt' or 'save all' and button 2 is 'store'.

If I could use a property node for mechanical action it would be easy, but I can't find that.

Any ideas anyone?

thanks in advance

Ieon

[pincpanter]

Hi Leon,
here are two options:
1) button 2 is a switch, after saving a point copy button 1 value to button 2 via a local
2) create two button 2 exactly overlapped, say button 2a (switch) and button 2b (latch); depending on button 1 show one of them and hide the other; save on 2a OR 2b

Paolo

[altenbach]

You could have both buttons as switch action. Now, if you want to use latch action, activate a case where the value is reset via e.g. a local variable.

See attached simple demo, LabVIEW 7.1.

Message Edited by altenbach on 11-11-2005 10:19 AM

[altenbach]

Of course if you have LabVIEW 8.0, you could make an Xcontrol that does everything.

[Electrode Man]

Hi There

Thanks guys for your ingenious suggestions , much appreciated.

I'll have a dabble to see which works best.

Thanks again

Ieon