Refresh front panel while BuildTargetBuildSpecification.vi is working

[instrumento]

How would one go about refreshing the front panel of a VI that calls BuildTargetBuildSpecification.vi, and it may spend 5 to 10 minutes compiling a project?

It is quite impossible to tell the difference of a hung process and something that is just chugging along, if the front panel of the calling VI just goes blank/unresponsive for all that time.

It would be nice to put something moving to give an "I'm still busy" kind of feedback.  I tried doing something like that but it just never updates.

I would expect something like wrapping the call into another VI and change the system where that VI hierarchy runs to work, and or the priority of either thread, but before I go experimenting maybe someone can tell me 🙂

[Carl_W]

Hi,

The Build.vi locks LabVIEW resources so it is not possible to have the front panel update. To test this I tried asynchronous call of this vi and I can see it locks everything until the build is complete.

[instrumento]

Yesterday I've tried playing with different execution systems and priorities to no avail.

Pretty silly to have a GUI based program lock the GUI for that long of a time, reminds me of similar problems with X11MainLoop and TkMainLoop, but with those there are work arounds via (careful) use of threading.

I'll have to background that thing from a different non LabVIEW process and hide it.