keep running while dialogue is open

[holomorph]

I want to use a pop up dialogue and have my main application keep running. Any ideas how to do this? I've attached a very simple VI to show what I want to do; I want the counter to keep counting while the dialogue is open.

[chilly_charly]

The simplest solution is to move the dialog to a parallel loop, as in the attached modified vi.
A more elaborated solution would be to use the vi server to launch a dialog vi, independently of the main. But that's another story...

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