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QUOTE(Val Brown @ Sep 29 2008, 06:59 PM) If you refer to the development of the XPe OS there are a lot of info on the microsoft website (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa731143.aspx); BTW to create a functioning OS it is not too critical, optimize it is another question. Max

In the first attempt I created, under LV 7.1, a component with the minimum number of needed drivers (and also someone else that I couldn't remove) and placed in the pre-FBA image of my XPe system; in this case during the FBA the drivers were "installed" and at the end of the FBA the application were installed and MAX settled up with the tasks used. After this attempt that needed about a couple of monthes for adjustment and test I decided to create a functioning XPe system with all the neede drivers for the installed hardware. Once deployed this system I install the NiDAQ drivers using the standard installation removing as much as possible of unwanted/unused components using the installer created by the application builder. It is true that in this case I use too much space on the storage but I can't waste so much time every time; the first system was developed in LV 7.1 and the drivers installed was about 450MB, after my cut I reached a 200MB functioning drivers; now the last version I developed was under LV 8.5 and a couple of week after the release of my system I discovered an unwanted bug in the version 8.5 of the application builder solved by the 8.51: in this case I had only to update using the new installer, in other case I had to recreate the whole system from the beginning. Max P.S. Using XPe I don't use HD but DOM, in this case some more attention has to be payd in the construction on the OS and of the application in order to reduce the number of write on the disk

I use many LV applications with XPe systems starting from version 7.1 up to the 8.5 (at the moment). I never had problems with my applications, in one case I use the LV application as Shell, the only "problem" is that to use LV EXE you have to install The Runtime Engine and to use LV drivers you have to install the NI drivers, so you need a big quantity of space on your disk to do this. Once installed runtime engine and drivers you will find on your system a big quantity of programs and drivers unwanted but it is not so simple to remove the ones you don't use, and you will experience not a great help from NI in this case. Max

QUOTE(chrisdavis @ Feb 23 2007, 01:34 PM) Sorry for the double post, my fault. For the VI path primitive the problem is that the executable that is running at the moment in which I would like to know the path is the installer, and I can't modify its behaviour (I suppose). I can use this to know the path in which I'm installing to. Max QUOTE(kennoncotton @ Feb 26 2007, 05:31 PM) Max, There are a couple of command line arguements that you can pass, INSTALLDIR and DISTROOT, in the Run executable after installation portion of the Installer Properties that will give you the information you are looking for. Here is a link to the help topic for that dialog: http://zone.ni.com/reference/en-XX/help/37...er_settings_db/ Kennon Thanks, I will try. Max

Hello to everybody. I use LV8.2. My problem is that once I created an installer and copied it to a CD I need that at the end of the installation the system launch another file (executable that I've added during the creation of the installer). This executable (created wih LV) must copy a file from the CD to the installation directory. Someone knows how to determine the CD drive letter? Or someone knows how and if it's possible to know the path from which I'm installing and the one in which I'm putting the files? Best wishes Max

Hello to everybody. I use LV8.2. My problem is that once I created an installer and copied it to a CD I need that at the end of the installation the system launch another file (executable that I've added during the creation of the installer). This executable (created wih LV) must copy a file from the CD to the installation directory. Someone knows how to determine the CD drive letter? Or someone knows how and if it's possible to know the path from which I'm installing and the one in which I'm putting the files? Best wishes