Visible front panel?

Greetings,
I'm a LabView 'newbee' and I have a basic question.  How do I make a VI's front panel invisible?  I have one main VI which implemates and controls a state machine (simple mediator pattern), but I do not want the front panel of the main VI to be visible.  I saw one example where one VI controlled another VI, but not the VI controlling itself ('this instance' reference?).  Any suggestions would very appreciated.
JMA

In LabVIEW 7.1 you can use the "state" property of a front panel window to hide it.
But whether or not this is a sensible thing to do for your application is another matter.
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