front panel pause button

[SnowMule]

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@NormPgh wrote:

I thought about adding my own 'pause' buttton/control, but my users have become acustomed to hitting the pause button on the front panel, and it will be difficult to get them to change.  I guess the error would remind them 🙂

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Remember what I was saying about a process problem?

You can turn off that toolbar in the vi properties. 

[nathand]

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@NormPgh wrote:

This approach should work just fine, assuming I can figure out how to remove the toolbar when the code is running.

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VI Properties -> Window Appearance -> Customize.  Uncheck "Show Toolbar When Running" (or just set it to be a top-level application window).

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NormPgh wrote:

Out of curiosity, would it also be reasobale to use an event handler to stop the acquisition when the user presses my new 'pause' control, and start the acquisition again when they resume?

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This could work too, but if the event loop is separate from the acquisition loop (which would be a normal architecture) then you'll need to do some message passing between the loops.

[NormPgh]

Thanks again to both of you. It has been tremendously helpful.