Handling menu selection in multi states of states machine

Hi everyone,
My application uses states machine architecture, I have to handle menu selection in two different states and the 2nd of them has to be handled by the event case structure.
The problem is that when I use event structure in the 1st state it is also handled later by the event case in the 2nd state and it is impossible to handle menu selection in the 1st state by the "Get Menu Selection" block because according to it's descripton if event structure is configured to handle the same menu as item as this block, LabVIEW ignores this function.
I would be greatful for any clue.
Greetings,
Mariusz
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Thanks for respond.
Here's a code explaining the main idea.
Attachments:
Untitled 1.vi ‏9 KB
Enum_States.ctl ‏5 KB

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