Running and Stopping Projects

When you run a project, LabVIEW SignalExpress executes all the steps that the project contains until you stop or abort the project.

Running Projects

Click the Run button to run a LabVIEW SignalExpress project.

LabVIEW SignalExpress prompts you to configure the run mode for a project the first time you click the Run button after launching LabVIEW SignalExpress. By default, LabVIEW SignalExpress runs projects continuously when you click the Run button. However, you can configure LabVIEW SignalExpress to run a project once, for a number of iterations you specify, or for an amount of time you specify. After you configure the run mode, the icon on the Run button updates to reflect the configuration.

Stopping Projects

When a project is running, the Stop button replaces the Run button. Click the Stop button to stop the project. When you click the Stop button, the project stops when the current iteration of the project completes. Projects you configure to run once, run for a specific number of iterations, or run for a specific amount of time stop automatically when the stop condition occurs.

Aborting Projects

In some cases you cannot stop a project, such as when a hardware step waits on a trigger that does not occur. In this case you must abort the project to stop execution. You can click the down arrow on the Stop button and select Abort from the shortcut menu to halt the execution of a project immediately. Because aborting a project does not wait for the final iteration of the project to complete, selecting the Abort option might cause LabVIEW SignalExpress to display incomplete data.

Note  You also can use the options in the Operate menu to run, stop, or abort a project.