A row of buttons where only one button can be pressed at a time.

[RTSLVU]

I am trying to recreate a control panel that is a row of buttons where only one button can be pressed at a time.

Pressing any one button clears any other that was on.

I have seen this done before, in fact I have done this myself, but for the life of me I can not remeber how I did it without some stupid Rube Goldburge vi... 

[Dennis_Knutson]

Use the Radio Buttons control.

[Mark_Yedinak]

An alternative and less elegant solution would be to have logic in your code that would enable/disable the buttons programmatically. The logic in your code would determine which button should be active and enable that one. All others would then be disabled.

[RavensFan]

Use an event structure that detects which button was pressed then programmatically sets all the other buttons to False.

[RTSLVU]

Thanks for all of your suggestions.

Mark Yedinak's less elegant solution was the direction I was aiming for as i already have the booleans in my program.

I would like to see some examples of thte other soutions.

The radio buttons seems like the easiest approch but it is a control and I need booleans. I guess a case structure full of local variables to set and reset the booleans to go along with this would work.

I have never used an event structure so I do not even know how to use one for any purpose.

[Darin.K]

Here is a link to an example I previously posted.  You can ignore the the blinking part, as a bonus I threw in code to only allow a single true element in the array.

http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&message.id=438296#M438296

[RTSLVU]

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Darin.K wrote:

Here is a link to an example I previously posted.  You can ignore the the blinking part, as a bonus I threw in code to only allow a single true element in the array.

http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&message.id=438296#M438296

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That's really cool, but I do not understand how to modify it for my needs.

I tried removing the blinking part but that broke the event thing...

Message Edited by RTSLVU on 10-06-2009 09:59 AM

[Darin.K]

Before you remove the timed loop, move the stop button terminal to the 'Stop Value Changed' event case.  You don't need to wire it to anything, I just like to put it there to make sure it is read.

[Joe_H]

Why not just use the radio buttons like Dennis suggested.

[Wayne.C]

RTSLVU,

Here is a pretty simple way to get booleans from Radio Buttons control.  This would work really well with an Event Structure.