Programmatically drop-down a combo box

[josborne]

LabVIEW should expose a method that allows you to "drop-down" a combo box programmatically.

Something similar to the issue discussed in this KB article:  http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/96BD56FE6D416AB5862573BE00811AC2

A simple invoke node would be great.

[elset191]

If I understood correctly, this is a viable workaround for now.  It's probably Windows only, and excuse the stacked sequence.  From an NI employee no less...

[Darren]

Back in my LabVIEW 8.5/8.6 days I was working on a LabVIEW-based editor in which I needed this functionality.  Ultimately I used Windows calls (like in the linked example), but that was a shoddy workaround.  I agree that a built-in "Execute Drop Down" method on the Ring, Enum, and Combo Box classes would be very useful.  Kudos.