Calling and exiting a subvi

[Rufus Sifred]

Hello fellows

I have a problem that I don't know what to do.

I have a main vi that has a while loop and an event structure that controls all my commands in the panel that has a clock information too.

When I active a menu option,  I call a sub-vi that will receive data to the main vi.

What a I want to do is,  when I call the sub-vi,  the clock in the main vi don´t stop and when I finish typing data and press OK,  this sub-vi closes automatically and the main vi keep on running.

I am using LV 86

Thanks to all

[smercurio_fc]

Your question has been asked many times before. You either need to call your subVI dynamically or you need to set up a producer consumer loop so that the event structure (producer) can run parallel to the consumer loop which would actually call the VI.

To learn about the producer-consumer loop please look at the KB article: Application Design Patterns: Producer/Consumer

To launch a VI dynamically please look at the shipping examples on the VI Server. If you do a forum search on popup you will find many threads discussing this as well.