I want to make a "Choose One of the Following Versions" control for User Interaction. Ordinarily I would simply make an Enum with the appropriate values and let the User "choose". However, I want a Big control, possibly bold and blue, so it stands out and makes for a more "user-friendly" Front Panel.
If it were a Numeric control, it is easy to set the size and Font of the entry, but an Enum doesn't appear to allow this. So I thought of the Enum's Curious Cousin, the Text Ring. It's easy enough to populate the Ring from the Enum, and the Ring does have a RingText.Font property, but when I try to wire something into this property, I get Error 1. While writing this note, I checked to see if I could read it -- that works! [It says that the Font is 15 point "App Font", color is 0, and no "options" are chosen].
Is this failure to write the RingText.Font property a Bug or a Feature? Does anyone have an elegant way to approach this problem?
Bob Schor
