Bob Reed

Sorry about the previous reply. Am new and had not figured out where to type reply. I have had problems with the application builder and installer builder as well. Had no difficulties with previous versions. Read the instructions (not easy for me to understand) and followed NI examples for both builds. My first attempts to build my own application led to error messages I could not easily understand. Finally compiled my main vi to eliminate one problem. Did not need to do this in version 7.0 when vi was previoulsy run successfully in development mode. THen was forced to fix links to help files for a fair number of Measurement Computing VI's for one of their USB devices. Don't understand why help files for sub vis are necessary for built applications where user can not see or alter the block diagrams. I think this is unnecessary waste of time. Can not get the installer to target my selected installation directory. Can select this directory when using the finished installel but it is not the default directory. It insists on putting the application in the Program Directory. My software can not work in that directory because directory must contain ceratin ini and calibration files. Most of our customers do not understand how to select install directories other than the default directory for their software updates. A fair fraction will ignore instructions and use the wrong default directory. I can get the practice example installer build to do the appropriate thing. But my pre build folder is not on the available list of directories when I configure the installer build instructions. Generating or selecting a target folder is not an option in the drop down list in the installer configuration set up.