Combined Event Structure with While Loop

[paul_cardinale]

An event structure is almost always in a while loop.  Why not combine the two into a Repeating Event Structure (or maybe call is an Event Loop).

Instead of this:

have this:

[crossrulz]

Similar (but not a duplicate): Combine the event structure and the timed loop

Also see some of the discussion from this idea: event structure stop

[drjdpowell]

Where does common code (outside the individual cases, and executed on for every event) go?  Error handling, for example, or a calculation of a dynamic timeout value?

[AristosQueue (NI)]

LabVIEW NXG decided to add a single item to the palettes that is an "Event Loop" -- when you drop that structure, it drops a While Loop with an Event Structure inside of it.

This idea of combining them into one structure was discussed when the Event Structure was originally added to LabVIEW. It was discussed again when LabVIEW NXG was spinning up. Multiple reviews keep identifying the desire to put code outside the Event Structure but inside the While Loop (notably First Call reset of uninitialized shift registers and post-event logging) as a major reason to keep these separate.

We will not be combining them. Making the palette change to drop both structures in one drop is unlikely to be tackled in the LabVIEW 20xx platform.

[Darren]

Declined for reasons listed in the idea discussion thread.