producer/consumer state machine

Hello,

I have a State Machine with an Idle state that has an Event Structure to handle user events in it. I would like to include in that state, and in parallel with the Event Structure, a VI that polls for data every 10 seconds. Is there a way to have the Event Structure respond automatically to User events without having to wait 10 seconds before polling new data? Is the Producer/Consumer the way to go and how am I going to program this?

Thank you,

Richard