Why not run it instantly? If the user has launched it then he obviously wants it to run and there is not much he can do in a built application if it's not running (unlike in the development system where preventing VIs from running when opened often can be necessary).
If there is something the user needs to input etc. prior to running something else in the application then just make the application work that way... Make it enter a state where it does nothing but wait for some inputs when it is launched and then when a button is pressed or whatever that part of the application is terminated and it proceeds to the next state, don't use the run, pause and stop buttons of the development system to control the execution of a built application, program the execution cont
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