TLC Daemon is a lightweight LabVIEW toolkit for launching, controlling, and stopping asynchronous background tasks in a clean, object-oriented way.
The name is inspired by the Unix/Linux concept of a daemon: a process running silently in the background, independently from the caller. Unlike system daemons, TLC_Daemon tasks have a well-defined lifecycle and are designed to be started and stopped on demand.

TLC Daemon encapsulates the recurring pattern of asynchronous task management in LabVIEW (launching a VI asynchronously, controlling its lifecycle, handling cooperative stop, and retrieving the final result) into a clean, reusable, and extensible structure. It defines a systematic way to pass data to these tasks and stop them cleanly.

TLC Daemon provides a minimal but powerful abstraction to manage:

- Asynchronous execution
- Task lifecycle (start, stop, completion)
- Cooperative soft-stop mechanisms
- Final result retrieval

The goal is a **simple and consistent framework** without unnecessary complexity or heavy infrastructure.

Getting started:
Create a new Task class
From LabVIEW, go to Tools > TLC > Daemon > New ITask Class.
This will create a new class that implements ITask, ready to be customized with your task logic.

Examples:
Open the LabVIEW Example Finder and search for daemon, or go to Tools > TLC > Daemon > Examples to browse them directly.

Source code:
The full source code for this package is available on GitHub:
https://github.com/andcadev/TLC_Daemon