Is there a way to run a For Loop independen​tly within a While Loop in LabVIEW 2013?

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In my program I would like to run a For loop inside of a While loop, and have them run independently, at their own execution rates.  As a test, I wrote a simple VI with a While loop with 1 second timing, and into this I inserted a For loop with 3 second timing.  I created indicators for both iteration terminals.  Upon running the VI, I found the While loop waits for the For loop to run N times before the While loop executes again.  I also found that sometimes the first iteration of the For loop will end at 1 second rather than 3 seconds, and the STOP button to terminate execution of the While loop does not always work.
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ksinks wrote:
Thanks, how would you synchronize the loops?  I have gone through the Getting Started exercises and manual.
Why would synchronization matter? Did you want them to run independantly at their own speed or not?
Regardless, there's a synchronization pallette with functions for this, as Occurance.
Other solutions include a common loop counter and a case structure executing every X'th iteration, or having the faster loop send a queue or event every X'th loop that controls the slower loop.
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