Help with a state machine

[Jim Stockton]

I am trying to setup a structure such that when a button is pressed
(boolean True/False) that N cycles( N comes from a numeric control) of a
while loop are executed and then the button is then set to false. I'm
new to labview so if this is a simple question I apologize. I'm using
V5.01
Thanks
Jim Stockton

[CraigGraham]

Jim Stockton wrote in message
news:75CDD5598ED17BD7.C4CA4C14B9F7716C.E838B8882EA40A09@lp.airnews.net...
> I am trying to setup a structure such that when a button is pressed
> (boolean True/False) that N cycles( N comes from a numeric control) of a
> while loop are executed and then the button is then set to false. I'm
> new to labview so if this is a simple question I apologize. I'm using
> V5.01
> Thanks
> Jim Stockton

Like this?




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[Dennis_Knutson]

Here's a simple state machine example.

[adamrussell]

That sounds to me like a while loop with the run button and a case
statement. Inside the case statement you would have the while loop that you
want to run N times (or a for loop) and a false wired to a local variable of
the run button.

"Jim Stockton" wrote in message
news:75CDD5598ED17BD7.C4CA4C14B9F7716C.E838B8882EA40A09@lp.airnews.net...
> I am trying to setup a structure such that when a button is pressed
> (boolean True/False) that N cycles( N comes from a numeric control) of a
> while loop are executed and then the button is then set to false. I'm
> new to labview so if this is a simple question I apologize. I'm using
> V5.01
> Thanks
> Jim Stockton