What benefits does this have over this: http://lavag.org/top...w-tray-launcher ? Can the functionalities be merged?
I realize this is a month old but I wasn't able to check Lava consistently recently.
Yeah so my LabVIEW Tray Launcher is different from this application in a couple ways. In my application there is a registry tweak that makes it so that LabVIEW does not get ran when a .VI file is double clicked, but instead my program runs then launches LabVIEW based on what the user selects. This can be a good thing or an unwanted thing based on how you use LabVIEW.
Often I will download a VI from the web and I just want to open it quickly. So I'll choose the Open option in my web browser instead of download. It will download it to a temp directory then open it with my launcher then choose the right version of LabVIEW. This is an interesting case because I don't know the exact location of the saved VI (I could find out easily) and I don't know the version of LabVIEW it was written for. In this case the Shell Launcher wouldn't help because the VI would be opened with the default version of LabVIEW since you would need to right click the VI and choose the option to launch it.
On the other hand some people probably don't want my program taking over the .VI file extension and may want to right click the VI and choose the right one.
My program could be changed to be a right click menu option, and I'm sure that this program could be changed to be ran when double clicking a VI and not just right click.
My program does offer a few other features that might be useful but I'll try not to turn this into a post about my program.
LabVIEW Shell Launcher 1.0.4.zip 5.88MB
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