Dynamic event multiple loops

I'm trying to see if I can use one Dynamic User Event to control multiple Event Structures. It seems that sometimes once a dynamic event occurs and its "interrupt" is answered by an event case, other VIs only have a short amount of time (<50ms) to reach their event case state for accepting this event otherwise the event seems to be cleared and the other VIs are oblivious that the event even occured.
My Question: Is it possible to use one dynamic event to control multiple Event Structures reliably?
A previous post somewhat speaks of this issue but does not provide a solution or anything insightful.
http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&message.id=223495&query.id=135563#M223495
I've included an example of my issue
Attachments:
DynamicUE.zip ‏61 KB

Thanks to both of you. I found the answer to my question in the second posted link. "the common, correct use case is to have one Event structure per dynamic event registration". I tested this out with the previous attachment by registering the User Event refnum from the ESTOP functional global to another Event Registration node. I then ran this refnum to the top loop. (instread of the top loop sharing the registration refnum with the middle loop). Now I can put a delay of 2000+ ms and not even miss an event. cooool. This will probably NOT be my final solution but its good to know in the future.
Most likely I am going to design each of my main VIs to have a main while loop with a User Event Structure listening for dynamic events. Associated with each of these VIs will be a functional global which contains its User Event Refnum and Registration Refnum. This functional global will act as a gateway into the associated VI for other VIs/Subvis to use. This will follow the "one Event structure per dynamic event registration" rule while keeping my API organized and allowing room for scalability by simply adding more functional globals in the future.
Just putting this info out there for other users.
Thanks again,
Craig

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