In need of help, desperately!

Question

I'm using LabView 6 to design some testing software for electronic
components, and I want to have a button to return to the main menu that
overides everything...
At the moment, there are two while loops in the main part of my program, and
the buttons control is within the innermost while loop, attached both loops
ending conditions.
However, unless i'm running my inner while loop, the exit button isn't
recognised, (which does make sense), and short of using a local variable, I
can't end the outer loop, without being in the inner loop...
(Does any of this make sense??)
But I don't want to use a local variable, since this would mean I can't use
latching with the mechanical action,
and the next time the program is booted, the
button is still on, causing it
to stop immediately.
Can anyone please help me?
Slade Squire
Programmer
Rectifier Technologies Pacific

Answer 1

Another solution is to read the local where it is needed, and latch the
button back to the FALSE state on exiting the loops by writing to a local.
Greg McKaskle
Slade Squire wrote:
>
> Thanks a lot for that, I'm new with LabView, and simply had no idea!
> I knew that I had to initialize the value to zero, but I didn't know I could
> do it like that
> -Slade
>
> "Roberto Bozzolo" wrote in message
> news:[email protected]..
> > To avoid the problem of controls not being in the default state when a
> > vi starts I am used to put an invoke node at the very beginning,
> > selecting 'VI' as the vi server class of it and choosing 'Reinitialize
> > all to default' as the method invoked. If this is not
suitable for
> > your program you can simply create an invoke node for the boolean and
> > select 'Reinit to dflt' as the method (or create a local variable and
> > wire a False constant to it).
> >
> > This could solve your problem permitting you to use a local variable
> > for the boolean Quit button. If you still don't want to use locals,
> > you could use some of the syncronization vis that lv offers like
> > notifications or ocurrences, found in the Advanced >> Syncronization
> > palette.
> >
> > Roberto