Pause While Loop disrupts everything

[Theis Thorn]

Hello everyone

I'm made a while loop which is suppose to take some numbers from some arrays, then solve them in a formular and output the data for a certain amount of time - countdown. All this works, but it is important for me that I can pause and start again from the same point in time. This is importan because I may have to pause during the operation and sometimes the countdown would be set for hours where I wouldn't like to restart the entire proces.

I tried implementing a pause function but now It won't even start. Any body have any ideas?

Thank you very much,

Theis

[Himanshu_Goyal]

Hi Theis,

Keep your pause button inside the loop and then try.

Thanks and Regards

Himanshu Goyal

[aeastet · Accepted solution]

Something like this.

[smercurio_fc]

Please do NOT create multiple threads on the same subject. It's very irritating to try to answer a question in one thread, only to find that you've asked the question AGAIN somewhere else and had it already answered. I went to the trouble of trying to help you, and frankly now have no desire to help you further.

Have some patience. This forum is not a place for immediate answers.

ORIGINAL THREAD: http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/While-loop-stops-before-countdown-has-finished/m-p/1663284

[Theis Thorn]

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@smercurio_fc wrote:

Please do NOT create multiple threads on the same subject. It's very irritating to try to answer a question in one thread, only to find that you've asked the question AGAIN somewhere else and had it already answered. I went to the trouble of trying to help you, and frankly now have no desire to help you further.

Have some patience. This forum is not a place for immediate answers.

ORIGINAL THREAD: http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/While-loop-stops-before-countdown-has-finished/m-p/1663284

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I am most sorry that I created a multiple thread and I do see how that is annoying. I'm new to this forum and labview and I just wasn't sure if the old thread would dissapear in the bunch - even so I should ofcourse have had closed the other thread before opening a new one.

I will not do this again and I hope you can accept my apologie. I would also like to say thank you very much for the help! You have - all of you have - been very helpful and I can hournestly say that I learned a lot from you guys.

[Theis Thorn]

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@aeastet wrote:

Something like this.

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Ye! This looks something like it! I played around with it and adjusted af few things, like making it stop when it gets a zero input from the array. I do, still, have a few problems:

Whenever it reaches 10 seconds it kinda stops and then suddently ticks up to 20 within 4 seconds, so it even counts to fast. I also added a lamps wich shows which process is running. I build this as an array and when it gets signal 1, it the first lamp turns on, same with 2 but at three suddently multiple lamps light up - weird! It seems like I'm inches away from reaching my goal. Any ideas?

[aeastet]

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@Theis Thorn wrote:

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@aeastet wrote:

Something like this.

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Ye! This looks something like it! I played around with it and adjusted af few things, like making it stop when it gets a zero input from the array. I do, still, have a few problems:

Whenever it reaches 10 seconds it kinda stops and then suddently ticks up to 20 within 4 seconds, so it even counts to fast. I also added a lamps wich shows which process is running. I build this as an array and when it gets signal 1, it the first lamp turns on, same with 2 but at three suddently multiple lamps light up - weird! It seems like I'm inches away from reaching my goal. Any ideas?

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Well the reason you are getting multipul lamp is because the number going to your lamp array is binary 0,1,2,4,8, etc...

As far as why it hangs I am not sure I will have to see what you did. Can you save this code with the default values that you are using so that I can see what is going on.

[aeastet]

You had significan digites to 1. So you were only getting every ten after ten. I fixed it.

[Theis Thorn]

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@aeastet wrote:

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@Theis Thorn wrote:

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@aeastet wrote:

Something like this.

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Ye! This looks something like it! I played around with it and adjusted af few things, like making it stop when it gets a zero input from the array. I do, still, have a few problems:

Whenever it reaches 10 seconds it kinda stops and then suddently ticks up to 20 within 4 seconds, so it even counts to fast. I also added a lamps wich shows which process is running. I build this as an array and when it gets signal 1, it the first lamp turns on, same with 2 but at three suddently multiple lamps light up - weird! It seems like I'm inches away from reaching my goal. Any ideas?

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Well the reason you are getting multipul lamp is because the number going to your lamp array is binary 0,1,2,4,8, etc...

As far as why it hangs I am not sure I will have to see what you did. Can you save this code with the default values that you are using so that I can see what is going on.

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Ohh! I see, that one I should be able to figure out! 😉

What do you mean by saving the code with the default values? I'm not sure if it this you mean but here are the values I just tested it with:

Time (min) 0,2 ^ 0,1 ^ 0,3 ^ 0,4

Weight (g) 4000 ^ 2000 ^ 4000 ^ 6000

again, thank you 🙂

[Theis Thorn]

Ofcourse! That was stupid.

Well, it seems like I got what I wanted the program to do!

Thank you very much you have been most helpful!