How to exit event structure after a trigger occurs?

I am acquiring some analog signals. Before the trigger occurs, I would like to be able to save the setting or load the settings. I am using an event structure to do it.
My problem is I can't not exit the event structure after the analog acquisition is finished.
I am attaching the vi.
Thanks for your comment.
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event.vi ‏53 KB

Seems you are trying to fire an event using a local variable. This will not work. Events are primarily designed to handle user interactions on the front panel. If you want to programmatically fire the stop event, you can write to a "val(sgnl)" property of the stop button.
Still, you program needs quite a bit more work than that. For example you cannot do any save or load operation before the trigger happens. Maybe you should redo the entire thing as a state machine?
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