How to stop an event structure in a while loop

[Mark_Yedinak]

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@X. wrote:

That or you could generate a notification from the Event Case where you detect a stop action (and of course have your processing VI monitor this notifier).

Personally, when things may take a long time and I expect the user to change his mind, I pop up a progress bar from within the "Computing VI" with a "Cancel" and "Abort" button.

"Cancel", well cancels the whole thing, While "Abort" returns the results achieved so far (if that aplies).

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THis is good advice. Regardless though, The processing code will have to be organized in such a manner that it can detect the Stop event during processing. State machines offer a nice way to transition between tasks and allow the check to occur during processing (check between each state for instance).

[X.]

Responding to the progress bar inputs also requires some kind of state machine architecture. The simplest of which is when the processing involves a For or a While loop, which updates the progress bar either at each iteration or a subset thereof (the Loop is the "State Machine"). The main disadvantage of the progress bar is that it is obnoxious (even if you make it a non-floating window).

[Canzaca]

the solution is to include a timeout event, no matter who is empty

[ijustlovemath]

Canzaca,

Please don't revive 5 year old threads. If there's something you have a question about, feel free to post a new thread.

[altenbach]

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@Canzaca wrote:

the solution is to include a timeout event, no matter who is empty

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This is a long thread last active five years ago.

You probably should be significantly more specific this which post your "solution" applies. Thanks!

[Rivaldo]

Good advice.  In this way I can press other butons while a process trigged by an the event structure is running.