Queued State Machine skipping states?

Hi,
I started out writing my application using a simple state machine but I realized it was necessary to make the application more interactive and prevent the UI from freezing when interupted. For example, I want the user to be able to abort the test by clicking the stop button or a reset button that sends the state machine sequential flow to the reset state.
I implemented the my QSM by looking at the example in the link below.
https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-14169
However, the problem now is that the state machine no longer runs sequentially as in my initial simple state machine. Sometimes a state is repeated and at other times a state is skipped. By skipped, I meant it didn't follow the order I tried to implement in my code. I flush the queue before any new user input so I don't know what's causing this behavior in my application. Has anyone experienced this type of problem before? If so how can it be fixed.
Thanks

Hi
I'm still trying to find a solution to this problem. I was able apply a temporay remedy in an earlier application but in my current application, I'd have to find a permant fix to it. This problem is described in comment number 4 of the community example code link below. I tried to apply the recommended solution but it didn't work. Perhaps, I was doing it the wrong way. How will the example code be modified to fix the problem described in the comment? I will appreciate any suggestions. Thanks
https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-14169
Comment4
This pattern has a potential risk of get cycled or get into unwanted states. Let me explain it. When you click on button, an event occurs and typically an element is enqueued to the queue. But in the lower loop another element is enqueued (in this case Report or Process). So when you for example want to go to idle state by clicking on the Stop button, you go to idle state but then you go to report or process state because the element was enqueued behind the idle element as explained above. The solution is to check if the queue is empty before enqueuing the element in the lower loop:
If the queue is empty, it is safe to enqueue element in lower loop:
If it is not empty (this occurs when an element is enqueued in the upper loop due to event occurence), the element will not be enqueued:

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I was not able to get events you have registered with event structures. And also couldnot understand properly because of french texts.
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