Is there a better way to do this pop up?

[drjdpowell]

I suspect even your oldest Users have used other computer programs in the last decade or so.

[bobausttex · Accepted solution]

Well as sad as it sounds I found that all I had to do for the bulk of my display screen pop ups was to put the window in Float in the custom window settings.  I don't think that was an option at development time in the 90s.  I thought I had tried that first thing but it must have fooled me.  On any window that I do not need to stop data collection for and only has data going to it this seems to work and allow the sub vi to have a loop and be closed by a button without interfering with the main vi.

[James.M]

Above, you said "and have the pop up not interfere with the operation of the main vi".

I think most of took that as a programmatic issue, not a user interface issue, at least I did.

Go figure.