Your code "makes no sense". A Control should return the values it "advertises". Slide 2, for example, seems to "advertise" that it outputs 6 values, 0 (= Off), 10 k, 20 k, 30 k, 40 k, and 50 k. In reality, however, it returns the values 9, 211, 209, 97, 210, and 143. Note that a "slide control" implies a monotonic order of its outputs, not jumping around, up and down, as you are doing.
Before I looked at your code and saw how poorly you understood Controls and Indicators, I was going to tell you that you could use an Event Loop to keep the two Controls "in sync". But that depends on a better model for what you are doing.
If you want to keep you current design, here's a more rational way to do it:
- Make both Controls of type I32 (because they are going to take on integer values from 0 through 5).
- Look at the Properties of the Controls. Set Scale to 0 and 5.
- Go ahead and set the 6 Text Values you want.
When you set the Control, it will return a value of 0 through 5. What you, as the LabVIEW Programmer need to do, is to write a sub-VI (or a "function") that will take, say, 0, and know that you should use the "Off" value (say, 9). An easy way to do this is to build an Array with the sequential Values (which, for Slide 2, seems to be [9, 211, 209, 97, 210, 143]. You can then use Index Array (with the Array for Slide 2 and the Slide 2 value, 0 .. 5 as the Index, and get, for example, "211" if the Control is set to the Text Label "10 kHz".
Once you learn about Event Structures, you can learn how, when you change one Control, you can automatically read its value and write it into the other Control, so "Change one, change both". But I don't think you are ready for this yet.
Bob Schor
