How to guarantee an event structure executes at least once

[Lee_Jay]

I have an event structure that I want to execute one time on program start and then behave normally after that.  Is there an *elegant* way to do that?

Lee Jay

[Joe_H]

on startup set the timeout to some number and put your code you wish to run inside the timeout case. then inside the time out case set it to -1 using a shift register.

[Lee_Jay]

That works.  And it's not as ugly as what I was going to do.

Thanks!

Lee Jay

[PaulG.]

Jhoshkins' idea will work, but if you want the timeout to continue to function (not wait forever) you can put your code inside the True case of a True/False case structure, and use the First Call? to select it.

[Lee_Jay]

I had timeout at forever anyway so this works just fine.

Lee Jay