show / hide sub vi that keeps running on background

[Patrick Kerstholt]

Hello everyone,

I want to run a subvi on the background of my labview app.

In the frontpanel of the main VI I want a button to popup the frontpanel of the subvi.

In the subvi should be a button to hide the popup again. But when hided the subvi should continue running!

How to make this?

Making the popup is no problem, but how to hide and keep running and show up again when the button is hit again?

Thanks in advantage.

[g_Ricky]

You can refer to the VI open it by "Open by reference" function and then you can control the FP of your VI, show or hide it by clicking a button on the main pannel. The code of your VI will work even though your FP is close.

[Patrick Kerstholt]

Is there an example somewhere to see how this works ?

[g_Ricky · Accepted solution]

Surely, here they are! look at the following....and enjoy yourself!

[Patrick Kerstholt]

Thanks for the help!

Can you please downgrade them for me to LV 2009?

Thanks in advantage!

[g_Ricky]

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Patrick Kerstholt ha scritto:

Thanks for the help!

Can you please downgrade them for me to LV 2009?

Thanks in advantage!

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Yes of course!

Here the 2009 file.

[Patrick Kerstholt]

Thanks, that does exactly what I expected!

[g_Ricky]

Kudos are grateful!!!

Good work!

[Patrick Kerstholt]

All works fine in the VI itself, but when I try to create a sub vi and assign the two buttons as connectors of the subvi the popup doesn;t work anymore.

Why the popup doesn't show up?

I think it has got something to do with the eventbased structure.

Can anyone help fixing this problem ?

Thanks in advantage