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Open a Project via an Executable using LabVIEW and ActiveX

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‎09-16-2009 04:28 PM
Last Edited by: Member Example_Scrubber_Luis ‎01-30-2017 04:20 PM

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    Software

  • LabVIEW

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Overview

Coding that exemplifies how to load a project and open it programmatically.

 

Description

If you're looking to create an executable that opens a project on the computer it's running on, you won't
be able to access the LabVIEW application from the executable because it's running on the LabVIEW Run-Time Engine. To
overcome this, you'll need to use ActiveX to call into LabVIEW.exe to access the project files on the computer that the
executable is running on.

 

Requirements

LabVIEW 2012 (or compatible)

 

Steps to Reproduce
1. Select the project path and insert it in the "Project Path" string.
2. Run the VI.

 

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