Mechanical action change in subpanel

Hello,
My problem is that if i open my vi in a subpanel, the mechanical action of the buttons are changing :\ for eg it is set to 'switch until released' but if the vi run in a subpanel it works as a regular switch :\ The program itself is a GUI vi which opens different VIs in a subpanel according to the selected menupoint.
Pls help
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GUI2.vi ‏30 KB

Yeah you're right, i'm quite new to Labview The buttons that i was talking about are in the subvi, i'll attach it if you want. By the way do you know a better solution to decide which button is pressed in the menu? I've tried event structure with 'value changed' parameter but when i did i didn't get respond from the subvi ( for eg i connected a button to a led but the led didn't lit when i pressed the button ) Thx for the help
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