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QUOTE(nosflowm @ Feb 27 2007, 05:11 PM) I'd love to know the answer to this last question as well. I've got a front-end application written in LV8.2 that pulls data (picture + various calculated variables) from a Spiricon laser-analysis program which has an ActiveX interface. The ActiveX implementation of the Spiricon code tends to hang and crash the application. If Spiricon crashes, (or much more rarely, LV crashes), it takes the ActiveX interface with it, and the only way to recover is to shut down and restart both the LV and the Spiricon applications. If I could clear the ActiveX object from Labview without having to restart the LV EXE, I could handle the error on the fly, restart the Spiricon application, and open up a new ActiveX link. Any windows guru's know how to clear an ActiveX link?

Doh! Teach me to search on 'revision' instead of 'version'. Thanks for the help. I'll add this to my next release. Tom

Is there a slick way to display the application's revision number? I have yet to find one. You can access the main vi's revision number in the development environment and display it, but this number reverts to 0 once the vi becomes part of an application. There's an auto-(or manually)-incremented revision number as part of the application builder, but I can't see a way to grab it for display once the EXE is running. Right now I'm displaying the month-day-year (i.e. Rev. 11-08-06) at the end of title bar by reading the EXE's modified date, but I'd like to use a real revision number. I could read one from my .ini file, but that's a pain to make sure it's always correct. I've searched the ni forums on this with no luck.

I'll delurk and test the waters here. I'm a brand new member as well. Been programming LV since 2000. Largest app is about 400 sub-vi's of poorly written code. I'm very interested in trying out the event-driven SM structure with an action queue I spotted here on my next project. It would have made my last project considerably smoother. A little about myself: - Test engineer refugee from the telecom boom - severely sleep-deprived with a 5 month-old daughter at home (my little avatar) - I ride a '98 ZX9R, though not much since August - I'm gonna party like it's 199..2009, assuming we're all still around then Cheers, Tom