Calling external code from an application

[Stockley]

Hi all,

I'm new to this forum, and hope am posting in the right area.

I've tried to follow other threads, but some of the answers were a little complicated for my levels of programming.

I have an application that runs a remote control of our products. This uses TCP connectivity to talk to our units. Since our products are still in development, the communications protocol we use changes periodically, and while we generally have backwards compatibility, its not always going to be the case. As such, we iterate through versions, such as version 9, 10, 11, etc, to match the code running on each product.

We are now trying to monitor a few units from one machine, and instead of running multiple instances of the same monitoring software, we've got an application using VI references and sub panels that starts up and displays multiple copies of the monitoring software. At the moment, i've only been able to get the multi-software to run one version of code.

All of these systems are being compiled using the application builder (project file) in LabVIEW 8.2.1.

My question is, is there anyway I can build an application out of my monitoring software, for say version 9, and then have my multi-application access it, and display it on the sub panel? This way I could run multiple versions in the one piece of software.

If I haven't been clear, please ask for clarification, (and I'll see if I can word it another way)...

Thank for any help you can give me,

Slade

[Stockley]

Hi all,

I'm new to this forum, and hope am posting in the right area.

I've tried to follow other threads, but some of the answers were a little complicated for my levels of programming.

I have an application that runs a remote control of our products. This uses TCP connectivity to talk to our units. Since our products are still in development, the communications protocol we use changes periodically, and while we generally have backwards compatibility, its not always going to be the case. As such, we iterate through versions, such as version 9, 10, 11, etc, to match the code running on each product.

We are now trying to monitor a few units from one machine, and instead of running multiple instances of the same monitoring software, we've got an application using VI references and sub panels that starts up and displays multiple copies of the monitoring software. At the moment, i've only been able to get the multi-software to run one version of code.

All of these systems are being compiled using the application builder (project file) in LabVIEW 8.2.1.

My question is, is there anyway I can build an application out of my monitoring software, for say version 9, and then have my multi-application access it, and display it on the sub panel? This way I could run multiple versions in the one piece of software.

If I haven't been clear, please ask for clarification, (and I'll see if I can word it another way)...

Thank for any help you can give me,

Slade