Producer Consumer Subpanels, User events and DAQ

[CB]

Hello All,

I am working on a Producer Consumer application and have beed looking at subpanels for user navigation. The application needs to be capable of responding to user generated events but also manage data received from attached data acquisition and control hardware. This is a 2 part question.

I need to implement about 15 screens in this application and have started integrating subpanels. I need to be able to navigate from one subpanel vi to another using subvi buttons but dont understand how to build this functionality. Can I build functionlaity so that when I click on a subpanel loaded vi's button it will load the vi referenced by that button and the original dissappears.

I have a 3 loop producer event template consisting of (1)data acquisition producer, (2) user event producer and (3) consumer loop but theres not much detail, are there any reasonable templates out there? I have seen the data- consumer and user-consumer but no mix of all 3.

Advice appreciated

Chris

[viScience]

I use subpanels to host my display vi's and control them dynamically.  I would have a loop or vi process that manages your subpanel.  You could use user events, queues or notifiers to send messages to this subpanel manager to perform the basic functions such as loading a vi into a subpanel, removing a vi from subpanel (you can remove and stop the vi or keep the vi running in the background or even make it a floating vi.)  A subpanel button can create a local event which in turn could trigger a user event or message to the subpanel manager.  I have attached my subpanel manager to give you some ideas...