Customizing Tab control and Enum

I am trying to do two things here regarding customizing controls.
The first is to add a down-arrow decoration to an enum so that it looks kind of like a menu ring (click the down arrow to drop down the selections). If I simply paste it on top of the control, the decoration will intercept the click and not drop the selections down. I want to have the control colored, so putting it behind and making the ring text background transparent doesn't really work either. If I make it part of the "Ring Text" background element, it's fine for that one size, but if I resize the control it gets all stretched out.
The second is to modify the "Page Labels Display" in a tab control. The only selection allowed when attempting to customize the tab control is to "replace" the page labels display with a different control type. Every enum or ring that I've tried has simply beeped at me with no replacement. I would really like to get the aforementioned Ring-styled enum in this box as well.
One other quirk that I haven't noticed before (Maybe since I haven't done a lot of work with tabs in the past), but when I'm trying to get context help for anything inside of a tab, the only thing that shows up is the context help for the tab itself. Is that "working as expected"?
Regards,
Mike

hi Mike,
there is another discussion forum covering your first question, but it sounds like your best bet would be a ComboBox:
This will give you the appearance you want, and behaves the same as an Enum.
In order to set up a similar drop down menu of the pages of a Tab Control, it will be a little more indirect. Take a look at the attached example, which populates a combo box with the pages of a Tab Control.
That quirk you mentioned with the Context Help and Tab Controls is a known bug, and is fixed in LabVIEW 2011. Hope this helps!
~kgarrett
Applications Engineer
National Instruments
Attachments:
ex get pages from tab control.vi ‏10 KB

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