Tab control name editing

In my application i am using tab control .
For that i want to programatically change tab names and i want to enable and disable a specific tab .
In property i cant find this option and in discussion forums i could not able to open the vi mentioned in the link
http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/Change-values-of-Tabs-on-Tab-Control/m-p/677900#M311358
What might be the problem .
Thank you
Raja
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You are have your answer concerning enabling and disabling tabs. Concerning the first part of your question you can not dynamically change the names of tabs at runtime. The reason is that logically tabs are enumerated with the tab names being the enumerations. In other words the names aren't properties that you can change, they are part of the datatype.
Now what you can do is use a combination of buttons and enabling/disabling controls to simulate the appearance of a tab control - which might not be a bad idea given the problems that tabs can cause.
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