how to design a main menu?

[fr33k]

hi LabVIEW-users,

i'm working on labview for about 2 weeks and have made some simple VIs for voltage measurement.
now i want to put these VIs (3) together in one application (.exe) with a kind of main menu where i can
choose the VI i want to use. here's a pic to help understanding what i want to do:



each VI works on its own (no interacting with another VI, no "value-sharing").
and i need some kind of "back-button" to come back to the main menu to choose another VI.

so my question is how to create this type of menu,
i'm open to every kind of support...explainations...examples...tutorials...hints.

thx,
philipp

[NitinD]

Hi fr33k,

Which version of LV are you using? Pro, Base, Student?

[fr33k]

ahh sorry, i knew i forget something.

i use LabVIEW 8.6 - Base Development System

[muks]

Are you talking about creating a run time menu?

[NitinD]

Since you don't have Event Structures, I can think of this only.

You could use the paths to be relative and connect the error panes. To reduce CPU cycles you could put in a wait node in the while loop. I dunno if this is the best way or not. Hope it helps.

Regards,

Nitin

[Mathan]

Is this what you are looking for? Please place your subvi's inside the respective cases in the case structure

[fr33k]

@muks: due to the fact i'm new with LabVIEW i don't know exactly what a "runtime menu" is?! but i want the menu to work in an application. maybe i can make the menu in the projectexplorer?

@NitinD: thx for your solution, i will try to make it in the next hours and give a feedback.

[muks]

You can also go to vi properties -->windows appearence--> customize--> (CHECK) show front panel when called and close afterwards.

Message Edited by muks on 09-22-2009 04:30 PM

[muks]

Run time menu