While loop, wait function and stop button!

[ThiCop]

Hello freemason,

I think it might be better to create a separate post concerning your question as it does not seem to be directly linked to the original posted question in this thread.

[ogk.nz]

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@altenbach wrote:

Your VI are owned by Timing.lvlib that you failed to attach.

The code also seems quite fragile and convoluted. Can you show us an actualy use scenario?

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I've attached the actual library to make things easier. As for use scenario, this is the most common one:

What makes you say that the code sems convoluted and fragile? I have not had any issues with it yet. If there is a better way of handling these situations then I would be glad to know.

[altenbach]

It seems fragile because if you would call it at very long intervals, you might up with the same "seconds" and not register a change even if one occurred.

In terms of convoluted code, here's an functionally identical alternative of your "period change" that is significantly easier to create and maintain. 😄

[ogk.nz]

Fair point on the convoluted. I had no idea that Not Equal etc even worked with clusters.

Apart from actually going through and breaking the time down the Time/Date to a number, then dividing that number by each relevant factor that you want to check for (i.e. 1 for seconds, 60 for minutes, 3600 for hours) and rounding down to check the numbers, which seems even more convoluted, is there a better way to improve the resilience of the code?

From my viewpoint the code should never be needed/used in any instance where the possible calling time is going to be longer then desired measured interval (longer then 1 second for secondly updates, longer then 1 minute for minutely updates) apart from causing issues with the code, this also allows the possibility of having a period skipped as is seen as a common problem when people are sampling at 1-second rates on something they want to occur every second and wonder why every minute or so it loses a second.