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The location as set in the properties of the installer do not stick. No change stays in the box when I reopen it or do a build. It comes up as "Setup" every time, and it doesn't recognize any of the LV distribution disks. It looks like I need to remove the current install of LabVIEW and reinstall it. I tried to do a repair on the VISA driver in "Add or Remove Programs", but it has the same problem, in that it wants a disk named "Setup". The LV disks won't repair it. It must be corrupted.

The exe from the first builder step works on the development computer. The only additional installer is the NI-VISA Runtime 4.4 which has the distribution title "Setup", which is different from the other installers that are available. The others all say "National Instruments Device Drivers- November 2005, Disk 1" or "NI LabVIEW 8.0". Without the VISA installer added, it builds normally, although it obviously won't work on a target machine. Is the distribution title the key to the problem?

I have been trying to create an installer for my latest version of one of our applications. (using LV 8.0 on Windows XP) The build of the exe from the vi works normally, but not the installer builder. When the builder asks for a disk in D:\ to locate the installer source for "Setup" distribution, it doesn't respond to any of my disks. I have copied all three of the disks to the HD to see if that helps, and it does not like any of them there either. Rebooting has not helped. The message details from the Build Errors box is below: LabVIEW cannot locate some components necessary to build the installer. The components are from the following distribution(s): Distribution name: Setup Last known distribution path: D:\ The message details from the Build Errors box is below: CDK_Build_Invoke.vi.ProxyCaller >> CDK_Build_Invoke.vi >> CDK_Engine_Main.vi >> CDK_Engine_Build.vi >> CDK_Engine_PromptForMissingDist.vi Loading product deployment information Loading product deployment information Adding files to installer Done adding files Preparing to build deployment Copying products from distributions Done building deployment

As to my version, it is my profile that is old, since I haven't updated it lately. Version currently is 8.0. As to the restructuring and extensibility, the code that I have WAS scalable up to a little while ago. A change to it where I moved some items into a different frame of the sequence caused this problem. I had a difficult time catching it because LabVIEW created the appearance of a slider indicator (after duplicating the frame with the tab) when it didn't actually put into the diagram. I have now restored my code structure to have all of the pertinent sliders in the sequence where they are primarily used. It multiplies like a rabbit now. All of my variable names are nicely incremented and the world is a beautiful place again. Thank you all for your help. I don't think I would have found it without.

I believe that I have found the problem. Insane in this case is caused by a creation of a property node (in the duplicated frame) without an associated indicator. The indicator is in a different frame of the sequence where its visibility is controlled. After making the new frame with the unasigned property node, if I right click and select Find Terminal, nothing happens, since it doesn't get created. It is confusing because the indicator appears on the front panel. But it only gets duplicated because it is withing a tab control that duplicates it there. If I had gone on to make all of the needed changes before saving or running the vi, I probably wouldn't have seen this.

Thanks for the comments, all. I was out of the office yesterday, so today am back at it. Here is a new bit of info. The crash upon saving was after the edit. It can not run this way either. When I run the vi after adding the seventh monitor frame to the sequence, the error message comes up as follows: Insane object at BDHP+534EDC in "OxiFTE 5003.vi"; {graphics } (0x80); Label (COSM) Upon closing the dialog box, I get a series of about 40 nearly identical ones, just slightly different addresses for the insane object. The vi continues to run after that. The seventh analyzer monitor subpanel displays on the monitor tab and all of its indicators work normally. I was able to save the vi under a new name, but the next time it ran, LabVIEW crashed with a fatal error. (not the same insane message) Now it can't be saved even when it is freshly loaded. As to your suggestions: - I have tried about every combination of fresh boots and edits and running things. - As to memory limitations in Windows, this was happening identically in my 8 GB machine, and in the XP unit, it is using 483 MB while running the vi. - As to modularizing, yes that would be one way to try to get around this, and it is a consideration. However, it may not be the most time efficient way. With the addition of these last two frames to the sequence, this version should be going out the door. I may not be able to convince our customer that the extra time to recode is acceptable. (of course it may be my only option if no other solution makes it. - I don't use the toolbar stop button, since there is a big red one coded into my main loop. - Doing the forced recompile produces the same result. (original posted error message) - Number of controls in the whole vi is 65. No controls are in the troubled portion of code, only indicators. (the controls are on different pages and the monitor function is suspended when the operator uses controls.) - Not sure what the I32 selector values are that you are refering to, bbystrek.

My vi needs two more inputs. I have it currently working with six Modbus connected oxygen analyzers (4 channels each) and when I do a Duplicate Case on the sixth analyzer monitor in my stacked sequence, I can't save the vi. The message is not very helpful. "LAbVIEW.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." Below that it reads, "If you were in the middle of something, the information you were working on might be lost." When this happenned the first time, I moved development over to an XP machine from my Vista OS computer. (which had 8 GB RAM) I did a bunch of other cleanup tasks, got back to adding the seventh and eighth analyzer monitor sequences and got stomped by the crash again. The communication setup is common for all of the Modbus devices. Inside the stacked sequence there is a MB Serial Master Query.vi for each analyzer, a whole bunch of indicators (27 for each analyzer) and a few case structures. Anybody seen this before?