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SetRingItemAttribute

LabWindows/CVI

SetRingItemAttribute

int SetRingItemAttribute (int panelHandle, int controlID, int itemIndex, int itemAttribute, ...);

Purpose

Sets the value of a ring control item attribute.

Supported Controls

You can use SetRingItemAttribute with ring controls.

Parameters

Input
Name Type Description
panelHandle int Specifier for a particular panel that is currently in memory. You can obtain this handle from functions such as LoadPanel and NewPanel.
controlID int The defined constant, located in the .uir header file, that you assigned to the control in the User Interface Editor, or the ID returned by functions such as NewCtrl and DuplicateCtrl.
itemIndex int Zero-based index of the ring control item for which you want to set the attribute.

Pass VAL_ALL_OBJECTS if you want to set the attribute for all items in the ring control.

itemAttribute int The ring item attribute value to set.

In the function panel, when you click the control or press <Enter>, <Spacebar>, or <Ctrl-down arrow>, a dialog box appears containing a hierarchical list of the available attributes. Attributes whose values cannot be obtained are dimmed. Help text is shown for each attribute. To select an attribute, double-click it or select it and then press <Enter>.

If the attribute shown in this ring control has named constants as valid values, you can open a list of them by moving to the Attribute Value control and pressing <Enter>. The Attribute Values dialog box displays the values and value help for the constants.
attributeValue ... The value to which to set the ring item attribute.

If the attribute shown in this ring control has named constants as valid values, you can open a list of them by pressing <Enter>. The Attribute Values dialog box displays the values and value help for the constants.

Return Value

Name Type Description
status int Return value indicating whether the function was successful. A negative number indicates that an error occurred.

Additional Information

Library: User Interface Library

Include file: userint.h

LabWindows/CVI compatibility: LabWindows/CVI 2012 and later