Sometime a process take time to complete. Its would be a good idea to provide the operator with a dialog and show a time in seconds so they know the application did not have an issue.

Development system used: LabVIEW(r)

Front Panel (also showing input and output which are not normally shown to operator

but show for completeness.

Code

Changing the Seconds for n.n format

One Decimal point

Setting module to appear as a dialog.

Testing of Dialog

Screen Capture before timeout (above was final) below shown with control as constant

so its easier to see matching info.

Dialog appearance as a LV Dialog

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