dthomson

Sorry if I wasn't clear. The mechanism you point to is the one I'm using. It works. The problem is merely that, at least in 8.0, the menu item name is "About LabVIEW...". My own About window is the one that pops up, not the one for LabVIEW. That part is fine. But if this mechanism is used, one cannot change the menu item so that it appears as "About MyApp". It always says "About LabVIEW...". My end users don't need to know that I used LabVIEW to program the app. Most likely they have never heard of LabVIEW. So to make this mechanism useful, one needs to be able to edit the menu item name. I'm hoping I'm just missing something. If my understanding is correct, perhaps this should go to NI as a suggestion or even a bug report. ? Regards, Dave

I just tried building an App in 8.0 and using the built-in About mechanism. The only way I could get it to work was (not surprisingly) to use the Application Item/Help/About LabVIEW... menu item. When you use an Application Item, you can't edit the name. So my built application, with it's own name, has an About menu item that says "About LabVIEW...". How useful is that? It was trivial to add a custom About item and use it to call the same sub-vi that I had created for the built-in mechanism. My question is: is this sub-optimal? Should NI change this behaviour so that it might be useful for built applications? Cheers, Dave