Hello all, My goals are two fold... 1) Reinitialize onscreen switches and buttons when I stop the program... I'm currently using the "Reinit To Default" Invoke Node in a Event Structure. Works quite nicely, but doesn't exactly get me where I want to go... I'd like the While loop to run one more iteration to allow the signal from the reinitialize switch to get the signal to it's controls.. in this case the "Relay Sig1" LED. 2) I also have relays that I wish to disable upon shut down, currently I'm using a Select vi wired to the stop button, while this is effective, it is leading to a catastrophe of wires. (example Switch2) Is there a more direct method of accomplishing either or both of these tasks? As always, a point in the right direction would be most appreciated! I threw together a quick VI with both methods included and some explanation of what I'm doing. It is attached. Thanks! Chad

chuggins1434 wrote: 1) Reinitialize onscreen switches and buttons when I stop the program... I'm currently using the "Reinit To Default" Invoke Node in a Event Structure. Works quite nicely, but doesn't exactly get me where I want to go... I'd like the While loop to run one more iteration to allow the signal from the reinitialize switch to get the signal to it's controls.. in this case the "Relay Sig1" LED. Simply write to a local variable of the control AFTER the loop has completed. Also note that there are simpler constructs to do your boolean logic near the bottom. If you use an event structure, you should make sure to use (and discard) filtering events for "panel close" and similar so the shutdown sequence canot be bypassed. Also for the relays, any shutdown sequence belongs after the loop or inside the shutdown state of a state machine.

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Actually, after thinking about it, the question is moot... since I don't actually have buttons that are controlling the relays (typically) then there's nothing to create a local variable for to reinitalize.

I'm just starting to use State Machines... took Core1 & 2 recently, after several years of self taught spagetti looking diagrams progress, and now wish I could go back and rewrite everything I've done up to now!