pausing to wait for user input

[jbuglar@my-deja.com]

Does anybody know how I could semi-automate a test by asking the user to
make a measurement half way thorough the program and then continue when
they have entered it?

Thanks
Jenni

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[Rick Nelson]

Just have the program run into a WHILE loop, and inside the loop just have
the digital control. Just keep the loop going until the digital control is
not equal to zero. (or whatever value you want).

In the case the measurment might be zero, you could have it as a string
control, and as long as it is not a 'space', (a function in the compare
menu) keep the loop going. Then immediatly change the string to a number.
(found in the strings menu).

Another way is to have a digital control and only have it register when an
"enter" button his hit (boolean).

Rick

[Peter Reeves-Hall]

Rick Nelson wrote:

> Just have the program run into a WHILE loop, and inside the loop just have
> the digital control. Just keep the loop going until the digital control is
> not equal to zero. (or whatever value you want).
>

Aside: Don't forget to put a pause timmer of say 100ms in the loop or the
performance of your computer for other tasks will plumit as Labview will hog
the processor - doing the loop as many times as it can per second....

Peter

[Rick Nelson]

>
>
> Aside: Don't forget to put a pause timmer of say 100ms in the loop or the
> performance of your computer for other tasks will plumit as Labview will hog
> the processor - doing the loop as many times as it can per second....
>
> Peter

Oh yeah, good point. I forgot about that. I hope in the next versions you can
set a default timer value for while loops, cause I always have timers like that
it my loop -- gets kinda redundant.

Rick

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