w15nu

Happy New Year everyone,

Well after much trying over the holiday period I've come up with the attached. Very much an experimental work in progress, although it does provide the functionality I was seeking. I couldn't see any posted LV code as I don't have 2009 yet (company has lost the discs!!!), but clues you all gave me in the text of your replies, and in a similar one mesmith relied to elsewhere, gave me enough to think on for myself. There are issues, though. GUIDs are a problem; see the comments in the AppEXEConfig subVI. Also, in the same subVI it would nice to create a custom control that contained a tag name and tag value. You'll know what I mean when you investigate it.

I should add, by way of a disclaimer, I don't do much with projects generally. I only use them to create executables (hence my interest in this area) from a single top level VI, so if my goals seem limited project-wise then that's why. I'm not involved with large multi-developer projects at all. Constructive criticism is very welcome.

Graeme.

Hi Grame,

Thanks a lot for your examples. It helps me by A LOT!

I am not sure your version of LabVIEW, but when I tried it in LV 2009 and I build/run the EXE generated, it give me error:

LabVIEW: File is not a resource file.

The file <filename> could not be loaded

So I did a troubleshooting and found the culprit was one of the TAG Name (in AppEXEConfig.vi), Source[1].newName with value of <filename>.exe. The solution to this problem:

- Remove the element: Source[1].newName

- Or change the extension to .vi instead of .exe

I hope it helps to someone who using it in LV 2009

Cheers,

w15nu