My app can't find included text files

[JustJay]

I have written a very simple vi that uses a number variable to call various text files into a text string. It works well in the design mode. When I build my app, I include these text files, and upon install, it places them in the install directory/data/ just as I asked it to do in the app builder. When I run my app, it cannot find the text files. In the design mode, I had all my text files in a directory on my hard drive, and they were called from there. What do I do so that my vi knows to search in the \wherever\data directory after install?

Thanks for your help!

Jay

[didierj]

If you use "Current VI's Path" then take in account that the returned path in an exectuable is of this way:

<installation dir>\<executable>.exe\<vi-name>.vi

So in the dev-env you use one "strip path" to get the directory, but in the executable you'll need TWO "strip path"...

[JustJay]

If you use "Current VI's Path" then take in account that the returned path in an exectuable is of this way:

<installation dir>\<executable>.exe\<vi-name>.vi

So in the dev-env you use one "strip path" to get the directory, but in the executable you'll need TWO "strip path"...

I will give that a try this evening....

Thanks

[WMassey]

The attached VI shows one method of finding the containing folder regardless of where the VI is stored.

It may be in a folder, LLB or EXE and if it is either of the latter two, then the folder containing the LLB or EXE is returned.

Download File:post-2800-1130792964.zip