my case structure values chnged form words to numbers.

[joelklabo]

I have a case structure and the values changed to numbers, also i am not sure why it is not cycling through? any help would be appreciated.

[Conseils]

I think that some of the constant ordering from the case statement got confused.

I have attached a vi that I think does what you intended.

To me it looks as though the code will be hard to maintain though and at first sight it would be easier to increment the value by adding one in the while loop. I suspect though that there will be more going on here than in this revision. Perhaps you could consider a different approach as maintaining so many case structures could well be an issue.

Hope this is what you needed.

[joelklabo]

thanks for the help, I was hoping to use an enum indicator to display what case it was in on the fron panel but the values have changed to numbers. any ideas?

[TCPlomp]

You have too many cases (167) That is a number you can't maintain.
The reason you get a numeric as datatype and not an enum is because you should change the enum into a type def control.
To do this right click the instance left of the while loop->Create control. On the control on the front panel right click->advanced->Custimize control and set the control to type-def (see attachment).

Then save this control, and use this everywhere.

But first limit you cases, or use a plain string to explain the state...

Ton

Message Edited by TonP on 10-16-2006 08:05 AM