Menu ring for tab control

Hi,
I use a tab control which got in the meanwhile more tabs than could still all be displayed simultaneously. That's why I would like to use a menu ring instead of the tabs in order to control which tab will be displayed in the forefront. However, I could not yet figure out how to change the "page label display" of the tab control into a menu ring. Have a look onto my simple example. I guess you agree that my current solution doesn't really look like a pull down menu although it works like one. Any hint how to improve the design?
Thanks in advance,
Peter
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Here's an example that is based on an example that ships with LV. I cleaned it up a bit so it would look mre like a "real" application. It's not great from the standpoint of code design (No error handling for instance) but it shows how these plugins could work.
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