Event being missed? why doesn't this work?

[Marc_A]

Whataver works, but that is a lot more complicated than it needs to be. I wouldn't use an event case in the sub VI just for the timeout case. A simple wait is all you need. If this is still doing the same thing as you originally wanted, a much easier solution is what I posted before. Just respond to the button press and handle everything from there.

[Tomi_Maila]

I browsed this thread trough and I didn't saw one issue mentioned so I'll mention it. LabVIEW 7.1.1 and earlier have a bug in the event handling system. As a results if one has multiple event cases running in parallel events will get missed. So in LabVIEW 7.1.1 and earlier, do not use multiple event cases. I think this issue was fixed in LV 8.0 and at least it works properly in LV 8.2.

My collegue mentioned me a few weeks back that there is another bug related to events still present in LV 8.20. This issue was somehow related to missing events if events are generated faster than they are handled. I don't know the details but the result was that events may get missed still in LV 8.20. I just mailed my collegue and asked him to report the bug to NI if he has not yet done so.

Tomi