pop-up during loading time

[NahoY]

Hi everybody,

I have a pretty big program and during some applications, loading information and talking to instruments can be a bit long.  So instead of just having the front panel freeze up until it finishes whatever its doing, I would like to have a pop-up window saying "loading..." or something of that nature.  I know I can make my own subvi for this, but it looks a bit weird and unprofessionnal.  Just wondering if there are any easy and clean ways of doing this.

Thanks

Yohan

[Will.D]

Whenever I run into that (sometimes a test requires the configuration of 10+ instruments with 10-20 settings to be set each), and that takes some time, so I just use the "Set Busy" and "Unset Busy" (Application Control->Cursor), and lock out mouse clicks (so they  can't queue up a bunch of events).

It's not the most ideal solution I'm sure, but the users know that the little hourglass means somethings happening

[tuned99]

You can set up a string indicator with your message (be sure to save your message as the default) and place it somewhere on your front panel.  Using the visible property nodes, you can hide it during normal operation but then make it visible during your load time.  Additionally, you can set the blinking attribute to give it some pizazz.