Display user message indicating a serial timeout

[Scandalous]

Any ideas how I could have labview return a message if a serial read takes too long?  I am currently trying to implement an event structure but it seems to be screwing everything up, the event structure will wait for the timeout limit, and then just end the vi.  Any suggestions?

[John Rich]

Set the timeout on the serial port configuration and then just monitor the error out for a timeout error and use this to trigger your user notification.