Greetings everyone, what I want to do, is (due to user request), show three (possibly more) waveform charts on a separate window, but only when user requests them, so they don't obstruct visibility of the main VI and honestly, I'm lost at even where to start. They would have to be summoned by a boolean button or something like that, show up in a different window (dialog style VI or the such) and stay there until user closes the window, while not interrupting execution of main code. Now the tricky part is, they would have to be constantly updating, so the chart shows the histogram of the past few seconds like it does right now as an always visible (albeit, tabbed) indicator, what would be the best way to do this? Could anyone please point me to examples that do something like that, or what function or SubVi style should I use? Thanks in advance.

If your popups just need to display information, then the easiest method is to just put your chart is a subVI which you call normally and then just show it's front panel. As shown in the attached.

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Spawn graphics on a separate window, on demand

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Thank you guys for so much help on this one! As time was scarce, I took the easy way out last Friday and just used a tab control to keep the graphics separate as a quick and dirty fix, which was found acceptable by the operators, but will definitely look into all the solutions and probably work something out if time allows.