A button driven user interface in labview

[Rainbow_Warrior]

I have a clarification @JK1. For step 3 of your solution, if I use a state machine (I just read about them from http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/3024 ) using a loop and a case structure, then will my front panel change appearance change to reflect the new GUI of each state as i transition from state to state?

Do I make separate VI's for each of my sub-tasks with the GUI's I want for them, and then insert them in their corresponding state in the "main" VI?

Thanks

[JK1]

Considering your application:

1. Main screen (after welcome screen) has five buttons.  So the state machine for this screen will have cases to handle these five buttons.

2. If any one of the button leads to a GUI then that GUI will have its own state machine to handle the buttons.

3. So each GUI with buttons will have individual state machines to handle the buttons in FP.

Hope it helps.

[Rainbow_Warrior]

Yeah I understood what you are saying, but one doubt remains. Considering a trivial GUI, say I have 5 different kind of numeric indicators. and i want that on pressing one of the 5 buttons the corresponding indicator (and none of the others) appears. While I was doing this originally using event structure, I found that placing a different indicator for each case on the block diagram resulting in all 5 appearing on the front panel at once, which I dont want. Will that happen here as well?

[parthabe · Accepted solution]

You need to use property nodes for them & make it visible/invisible as per your req...

[parthabe]

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Rainbow_Warrior wrote:

Will that happen here as well?

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This is based on how you design you appl in LV.

It can be made similar or dissimilar, as you wish...

[parthabe]

I think this is the first time my reply got marked as the solution.