Stop a While Loop From a Menu Selection

[Dave Gearhart]

Good Morning!
I have an application using menus as the primary user interface tool.
I want to stop a while loop, but have only been able to do so with a push

button.
Any suggestions or solutions are much appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Dave

[Harry King]

In article <38bd2158@newsgroups.ni.com>,
Dave Gearhart wrote:
>
>Good Morning!
>I have an application using menus as the primary user interface tool.
>I want to stop a while loop, but have only been able to do so with a push
>button.

In the lower right hand corner, there is a green and yellow icon. What
you need to do is wire a boolean to that. As long as whatever your
condition is is true, the loop will continue. When your boolean turns
false, it will stop the loop.

Harry

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[Santiago Calderón]

Hi,
I use menu options to stop while loop in some of my program.

What I do is to check inside the loop if the menu selection is an empty
string, if it is I go on with the loop if it is not empty I compare with
the option of the menu and according of what it is I exit the loop or not.

Bye!
sacate@jazzfutboleros.com



Dave Gearhart escribió en el mensaje de noticias
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>
> Good Morning!
> I have an application using menus as the primary user interface tool.
> I want to stop a while loop, but have only been able to do so with a push
>
> button.
> Any suggestions or solutions are much appreciated.
> Thanks in advance
> Dave

[Dennis_Knutson]

What you can do is put the "Get Menu Selection" inside a while loop and wire
the "item tag" output to the selector of a case statement. You can also get
fancier and combine the above with "Insert Queue Element" and "Remove Queue
Element" to create a very flexible state machine.
"Dave Gearhart" wrote:
>>Good Morning!>I have an application using menus as the primary user interface
tool. >I want to stop a while loop, but have only been able to do so with
a push>>button. >Any suggestions or solutions are much appreciated. >Thanks
in advance>Dave