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Hello, I have done a few applications with the JKI State Machine, however I can never find a way to get into the "", "Idle" state in order to scan for Events. I tried passing various strings such as "", Idle or use an intermediary case event. Also tried modifying the Timeout on the event case. There's already an Event Case inside of JKI SM, so why would we need to add a another loop in order to control it as a Producer-Consumer for the front Panel to be responsive? I don't think the implementation of the Producer-Consumer on http://forums.jki.net/topic/1347-jki-state-machine-producer-consumer-loop/ would work since it does requires detecting an event. The only way I can think on how a P-C would work, it would require adding a "Add State(s) to Queue" between the "Parse State Queue" and the main case structure, where the data inserted would come from some kind of shared variable between the Procuder loop and the Consumer loop. Then you would still need to clear that variable and manage the new states to be added only on a change of the variable after it is added and cleared. How can we force the scan for Events when we want with the standard JKI SM loop? The only way that I see the JKI Events being useful is on single clicking applications, where the actions on the front panel always end up clearing the Queue. The while loop would only be used to keep the application active. The only workaround that I found is to add all local variables within the states that would break the sequence if modified. Which is bad because you will need to track every interface item manually. Here is an example: (Not sure if the image is working as they are blocked where I work so I added it also to attached files) This State loops on itself until an action is done to stop the loop, such as toggling the Read DMM or stopping the VI (I shouldn't even need to track those...). As you can see the issue remains that the front panel remains non responsive if I modify anything that is not one of those 2 buttons. I have tried forcing the Idle state through a Timeout case which sends "Idle" to the JKI SM. Thanks,