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I am sure that a lot of you already knew what the "add property" button does in the installer build specification, but I am so happy about this discovery and I couldn't find anything online that I decided to share my excitement with my friends in LAVA. The application I am building works with a third party software that requires my installer to add things to the %appdata% folder, in Windows 8 this translates to C:Users<username>AppDataRoaming The default destinations available in the installer build specification in LabVIEW includes the [Public App Data] but in Windows 8 that points to C:ProgramData The help says that clicking on the Add property button under the Destination View lets you add a new MSI property to the Destination View tree. You can find a list of MSI properties here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370905.aspx#component_location_properties and in particular there is one called AppDataFolder http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367565(v=vs.85).aspx Well, adding the new property AppDataFolder was enough to set the destination for my ThirdPartyApp and the installer now successfully installs files in %appdata% folder. I hope this helps others in search of this information. Regards, Fab

I just did a quick test for you. Updating the background color of all 200x50 cells (with panel updates deferred) still takes 1,1 seconds in LabVIEW 2013 (on my relatively new PC)... But do you really need to update them all, and in one go - or could you update them individually on changes in the cell content *only* instead? Checking if a change is actually required first would take no time, so (unless most of them are likely to need a change) you could reduce the number of actual updates enough to make it seem "instant".

Got my ticket - yay!

Hello guys, I'm excited to attend the Lava BBQ this year :-) See you in Austin! Cheers, Steen

Ok, Check out the demo in the ZIP file It's not hack code, but is definitely missing documentation. So in lieu of that, here is a narrated story time http://screencast.com/t/dJsMkZkDA0 http://screencast.com/t/9dgIuC97LZwP Ports back to LabVIEW 7.0 at least (original code from 2003) ~,~ The Captain Was Here My Source Distribution.zip