stopping a subpanel vi

[slipstick]

I have a program consisting of a main vi that calls one of three different subpanels depending on an entered number. I can exit the subpanel just fine and proceed to use a different one with a different number, but I also want to stop the whole program with one button. I can use a global variable with a while loop, but I have an event structure with a timout of 10 mimutes that I can't change. How do I trigger the event structure from the top level vi?

I have attached a snippet (I hope!) that shows what I want to do. I can't post the real code. The code as written stops, waiting on input from the "exit" button. I want to be able to use the "stop" button in the while loop to trigger the event structure. I can't get a global to do this.

Tay

[Giedrius.S]

Idea only.

[Ben · Accepted solution]

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Giedrius.S wrote:

Idea only.

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Psssttt...

You may want to pull that image down before Ed Dickens (Author of "Using teh Stop Function to stop your application in LabVIEW is a lot like using a tree to stop your car....") sees it.

Re: how to stop...

I suggset youread Ton's Nugget on Dynamic Event registration. Dynamic Event Registration lets you st-up an event in one VI that get triggered by a control in anothe VI. It take a little learning but once you get used to it, you'll like it.

Ben

[ben64]

This is how I do it: I use button labelled stop in the VI used in the subpanel (your exit case when the value change) and in the main application I call the following code to stop the subpanel VI.

Ben

[slipstick]

This would work too. Thanks for the input!

Tay