How do you create a custom control which has several buttons?

Can you do this in LabView?
I want to make it so that one button will disable or switch the value/state of another. (Think minesweeper). I can create the logic in a subVI, but only if I have access to the property nodes of each of the buttons.
I want the front panel of the main VI to have the buttons on it, and I don't want the buttons to appear in a separate window.
If I place all of the buttons individually on the front panel of the main VI and pass their references to the subVI, I end up with tons and tons of variables in the main VI block diagram. It works but is very very messy.
I tried to create a custom control with a cluster of buttons in it, but I can't seem to get at the individual property nodes. Is it possible?
(*sighs* I wanna Class!)
Thanks in advance
jen

Hi Jen
Yes it is possible to get the individual property nodes of controls that are in a cluster.
You have a property Controls[] in the property node of the cluster, so you get an array of control references. You just have to extract the single references to access the controls.
I attached a screen-shot, which shows this possibility.
Hope it helps.
Thomas
Using LV8.0
Don't be afraid to rate a good answer...
Attachments:
Cluster.jpg ‏11 KB

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