variable dropdwon menu

[mtproductionsmunich]

Hi everybody I am hoping for help,

what i basically want to do is the following:

I am controlling Goepel Cascon with my Labview. Depending on the serial number of my tested subject the tests in Cascon vary, so what i basically want to do:

Depending on the serial number I want a dropdown menu that changes its options. The options are not suppost to be programmed hard, but they are supposed du be held in a  text file. But if anyone could help me getting a dropdwon menu that changes options as the serialnumber is different every time would be great.

Thanks for any help

Michael

[GerdW · Accepted solution]

Hi mt,

using a ring menu (is this your "dropdown menu"?) you can change its items using a "strings[]" property node.

When you use any of the menu functions in LabVIEW you can also change/create the menu at runtime.

All you need to do is provide the strings for either the ring or the menu. As you already have a textfile you just need to load that text file using one of those file functions…