How can I create a combo box/enum with sub categories

[volfi]

Hi,

when creating a combo box in LabVIEW I can edit the items to obtain several options. I would like to have have several sub-Options as depicted below.

How is this possible in LabVIEW?

Best

[GerdW]

Hi volfi,

in your image you show a menu: you can create them with LabVIEW too, either static or programmatically using the menu functions.

You could also use a tree control to create such a "tree" of items…

[volfi]

Hi GerdW,

thanks for your reply! Yes I am looking for something like the menu functions but I want to place it anywhere on the front Panel, not only the menu bar in the upper left Corner. Thanks!

[GerdW]

Hi volfi,

you could create (or "fake") this behaviour by opening some subVIs for each subtree…

[Yamaeda]

Can't you create a r-click menu with sublevel for a button?

/Y

[mud_light]

Make a button (or something) on the FP.

Tie the Left-click mouse-down event to an event that handles that button's shortcut menu.  It's a little hacky, but it largely does what you're looking for.

[drjdpowell]

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@mud_light wrote:

It's a little hacky,

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It's not hacky; this is exactly what "filter" events like "Mouse Down?" exist for.  Here's a similar example: a menu button on a graph.