Expandable Items window of Enum Properties

[Jick]

Many times I have multiple states in my type def enum control. When I edit enum items I would like to see bigger window for better item control. There is lot of empty space on Enum Properties: window but you can't expand Item window at all. Or the window could fill whole applicable space by default.

This would be nice to have option.

BR,

Jick

[PhillipBrooks]

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[tst]

One way of working around this issue is inputting the values directly in the enum control. If you type something in and then press Shift+Enter, LV adds another item to the enum and immediately allows you to edit it. This provides a quick way of adding items.

If you have a lot of items in an array of strings, you can also import them in programmatically. The easiest way is to create a ring, write to its Strings[] property and then replace the ring with an enum, which should maintain the strings.

[Jick]

Thanks tst, that's good to know.

Jick

[TCPlomp]

And there is a toolkit at Lava called 'Variant to control' the download for this toolkit includes a 'Strings to Enum' VI.

Ton