Amelia

QUOTE (Steve Mate @ Feb 7 2007, 11:19 PM)

Any reports from someone using Vista?

I just recently upgraded to Vista for the sole purpose of testing our current LabVIEW 7.1 software on the new OS. Our current software actually works quite well with the virtualstore, but we will eventually have to move away from that for future upgrades. A word of warning for developers working in XP, don't allow the program to save anything to C:\Program Files. This will cause compatibility issues when upgrading to Vista. The only other small problem that I have had is in the color and design of the front panel. We used the system default colors when we created the programs in XP. These system defaults are different in Vista so our programs look really funny at the moment with colors that don't quite work together.

I'm interested to know if anyone else has had other problems moving old software to Vista.

QUOTE (rolfk @ May 2 2008, 05:51 AM)

Then your splash screen takes to long to load. LabVIEW waits a few 100ms befor putting up the load dialog. This is enough to load a splash screen that does not have a to large hierarchy. Of course if you add your main VI statically into the splash screen that hierarchy needs to be loaded too before the VI can start executing.

Instead you want your splash screen to start up immediately showing it's front panel and then load and start (Run) your main VI dynamically using VI server inside the diagram of your startup splash screen. Once the main VI has loaded and started by opening its frontpanel your splash screen can stop and close.

Rolf Kalbermatter

Thanks. That makes sense.

QUOTE (jpdrolet @ Apr 30 2008, 02:29 PM)

Put another top-level VI in your application, like a splash screen. As soon as a VI has its window opened, the load window won't appear even if the application is not fully loaded yet.

I actually already have a splash screen, but the load vi window opens before the splash screen. You are right that as soon as the splash screen opens, the load window goes away, but I don't want the load window to show at all.

I am working on converting existing programs that were written in labVIEW 7.1 to be vista compatible. I know that labVIEW 7.1 is not vista compatible, and I will eventually switch over to labVIEW 8.5, but the existing programs seem to work with the virtualstore for now.

One interesting problem that I have come across, however, is that when the executable program is loading, a window opens for a few seconds saying that the subvi's are loading. This window scans through the names and locations of all vi's before the program opens. Although the program still opens just fine, I don't want this window visible in the distribution copy.

Any ideas?

Thanks so much for the help,

Amelia