wait for front panel event Labview 6.0

[shabu]

hi is the 'wait for front panel event" function of Labview 6.1 available in 6.0 as well. If not then can i somehow have the same effect in 6.0

[Labviewguru]

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"For the low low price of $395, you too can have the wonder and joy of Event Handling. And if you act now, we'll even throw in extra features such as Advanced Analysis, XML, IrDA, and more remote communication VIs and tools that you can imagine."

NO, the event functions are not available in earlier versions of LabVIEW. But for the price of the upgrade, you can't even begin to start writing code to mimic event handling. There is code out there (otherwise, why would NI have created event handling...) to do this, but it is hard to come by, and extremely difficult and time consuming to do on your own.

In short: upgrade to LabVIEW 6.1.

[eh]

I don't believe it is available in the base package and possibly even the full package. I would check before you upgrade to ensure you get this feature.

[Dennis_Knutson]

What type of event do you want to monitor? If it's something like a Boolean changing, pull-down menu selection, list box, or any number of other things, you can do that in 6.0 without the "event" structure. There was a shipping example that showed how to implement a state machine to monitor user events. The name of the example in 6.1 is Queued Message Handler.vi.

[Zvezdana S.]

The Event Structure is only available for application development in the Full and Professional Development Systems. The Base Package does not allow development with Event Structures.

However, if a program is created in the Full or Professional Development Systems it can be run on a machine with the Base Package. The Base Package has the DLLs to run the code but does not include the files needed to develop using the Event Structure.

The LabVIEW Comparison Chart on the web confirms this point.

The LabVIEW Comparison Chart
http://amp.ni.com/niwc/labview/devchart.jsp?node=10440

Zvezdana S.
National Instruments