Creating a desktop shortcut for a Real-time application

[dannyjhu]

I posted this on the LabView general forum but didn't get any response.  Anyone have any suggestions?

I have a couple of real-time projects that I run and would like to create a couple of desktop shortcuts to launch and deploy the application.  I use the same real-time target hardware for a couple of different applications so I go into LabView and open up which ever project I need and then run and deploy the VI from within the project.  It's just a pain to open the project and then scroll down the list of subVi to find the main VI to start my application.  I have created .exe files for non-rt applications and then created a desktop shortcut to run them.  Is there a similar way to create desktop shortcuts for rt applications?

Thank you for the help.

[David_A]

Yeah so that is the difference between a project that you want to deploy to a real-time target and a non real-time VI. With the non-real time VI you can easily create a desktop shortcut via a VI or an exe, with a real-time project you can do this so directly. The only way you would be able to do it is if you created a VI that would call your real-time project and then call your main VI and have it deploy and run.The VI that you created to do this task is what you could use as a desktop shortcut.

So in this VI you could search a folder for a specific project then search that project for your main VI and then have it deploy and run.

David A.