Intra-Loop Timing Advice

[Luke Pike]

The LabVIEW Forums are a good place.

I like using Queues to control my sub-loops. Queues are FIFO arrays; I enqueue a command from teleop or autonomous and dequeue from the loop that handles the commands. If you don't specify a timeout, the dequeue vi will wait until a command gets enqueued, effectively pausing the loop until it's needed. As a bonus, if the loop takes a long time to finish an iteration, other commands will still be added to the queue and processed in the order they were added.