dialogConstant

Block Category: Signal Producer

Description: The dialogConstant blocks let you easily create custom dialogs — commonly called Auto Dialogs — for compound blocks to speed up such tasks as setting, viewing, selecting, and changing user-defined parameter values encapsulated in the compound block.

The Auto Dialog presents all the dialogConstant blocks in the compound block, along with their current values. The changes you make in the Auto Dialog are automatically applied to the specific blocks. This means you no longer must drill into a compound block and change each block parameter.

By displaying only dialogConstant blocks, the Auto Dialog helps ensure that only relevant information is exposed to other users. This greatly reduces the chances of accidental or unnecessary changes to the compound block.

Name: Specifies the label for the data field to be displayed on the block and in the resulting Auto Dialog. When you do not supply a name, dialog constant is used.

Type: Indicates the data type, which controls how the data associated with the block is displayed in the resulting Auto Dialog. Your choices are:

Graphical element type	Resulting data type	How the data is displayed in the Auto Dialog
Integer List	Integer	Creates a drop-down list box to display meaningful names of elements. To create elements in the list box, enter them in the Value text box, as described below. When you select an element from the list, the output of the block is a 0-based index of the element in the list.
Double	Double precision floating point	Creates a static text box in which numeric values can be entered. To create an entry in the text box, enter it in the Value text box, as described below.
Boolean	Boolean	Creates a check box that can be turned on or off. To set its initial value, enter it in the Value text box, as described below. The result of the block is the value you enter.
String	String	Creates an editable text box in which text can be entered. To create an entry in the text box, enter it in the Value text box, as described below.
Label	Integer	None.

Value: Indicates the value associated with the data type. Once you insert a dialogConstant block, you can change its value through the custom dialog.

If the data type is	To the following
Integer List	Enter each entry for the drop-down list on a separate line. Entries appear in the drop-down list in the order they are entered in the Value box. The default entry is the first entry.
Double	Enter a numeric value that will appear in the static text box.
Boolean	1: puts it in a checked state; 0: puts it in an unchecked state.
String	Enter a text string.
Label	Nothing.