How to indicate an Event based producer-consumer structure is running or waiting for an event to process

[tintin_99]

Hi I have an event based producer-consumer loop . Inside the producer loop I have the event structure and then I queue the events and response to the events using a case structure in my producer loop.

The problem I have is . I have lots of controls on my front panel and when I click on one control I don't know how long does it takes to process the evennt-queue the message and process that specific case in my producer loop

How and where can I use an indicator to show there is no event ( green light ) and we are waiting for an event 

and red indicator to show something is processing 

Thanks

[GerdW]

Hi tintin,

sounds you want to use the TimeOut event to indicate you're waiting for new events…

[tintin_99]

Thanks,

Could you please help me with this. How can I add this time out event? 

[GerdW]

Hi tintin,

add an event to your event structure. Select Application->TimeOut for the event source…

[Hooovahh]

I don't know your setup so I don't know if this is applicable but you could setup a request for the consumer to do something, and then have the consumer send a reply back to the producer.  Then you can have notification that the operation was processed.

[JÞB]

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@GerdW wrote:

Hi tintin,

sounds you want to use the TimeOut event to indicate you're waiting for new events…

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I wouldn't necessarilly go there.....

This little piece of work might have just what the Dr. ordered to inspect events that are pending.

2013 and later.  The subvi is a undocumented piece of the event inspector window.