Boolean control for integer value

I am writing wrapper VIs for a DLL, and demo programs to, well, demonstrate their use
I have several functions which take the same structure as an input. This structure has several integer fields (U16, if you must know) which are logically booleans (that is, only valid values are 0 and1, and in fact at some level they are converted into a single bit each).
My VIs currently work, using a cluster that is laid out exactly like the structure. However, I would like the interface to be prettier and easier to use.
What I want to do is to show each of these fields as a pushbutton. However, if I change them to pushbuttons, the cluster's internal representation is now different and I can not pass it into the DLL function.
The only solution I have thought of is to have an input cluster with pushbuttons, then unbundle the whole thing, convert all the bools to ints, and then rebundle. This is very cumbersome.
Is there any way to have an integer field appear as a pushbutton (or other boolean-style) control, while remaining represented as an integer? Or any other createive ideas?
Thank you.
B.

Smercurio,
Thank you. I don't even know what an XControl is!
I was thinking of using unbundle by name -- but at least half of my cluster is this kind of field, so it will get a bit messy anyway. Also, if I am taking apart one type of cluster and building a different one, with different types, is it actually possible to only unbundle part of it? I haven't tried it, but somehow it doesn't make sense in my mind.
The menu ring is an interesting idea and sounds like it might be a reasonable solution, though pushbuttons are nicer; I'll have to play around with it and see how it looks.
Mark,
In general, I agree with you about separating the UI and the implementation, and that is how I generally write applications. You are 100% right that it is the correct approach to engineering an application.
The difference here is that my applications are really just demos of the library we create, and thus I don't really have to worry about giving the GUI a new look and feel or such things -- there is very little chance that my company will invest engineering time in changing the look and feel of the demo programs!
We control the DLL, and we have to stay backwards compatible for our customers, so we don't have to worry about it changing. We certainly don't have to worry about switching DLLs -- the entire purpose of this VI library is to wrap the DLL for customers who use LabVIEW!
If I were just doing this in the GUI, it would be one time and maybe I'd just do it.....but I wanted to make a custom control which would be at the interface to the VIs also (they can be run manually also).
At this point I am thinking of either the menu ring or of making a subvi which takes the UI type of cluster with booleans and does all the bundling and unbundling and type changes. I'd still have to do it, but once, and it would be basically hidden.
Hmmmm....
B.

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