Provide status dialog for Application Builder APIs

[shew82]

As described in the following "Darren's Weekly Nugget" posting, LabVIEW provides an API for programatically building projects. Especially when dealing with large projects, this can be a real time saver and great technique for quality control (ensuring that the build process is carried out the same way each time). However, when doing a programatic build, there is no status information - the LabVIEW application that calls these APIs is just left, giving the impression that it has locked up. This can be especially concerning given that builds of complex applications can take quite a while.

A solution seems pretty straight forward - give the build API calls, the option to display the standard building dialog.

A simple boolean value could allow an API user to provide some feedback to the hosted application as to what is going on without any of the complexities of other status feedback mechanisms (although *any* mechanism would be better than none!)

Weekly Nugget Posting regarding App Builder API: http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/Darren-s-Weekly-Nugget-02-15-2010/m-p/1072575

[jgcode]

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[Jim_Kring]

(+1 kudo) yes, please!

[PJM_Labview]

I could use that yesterday.

[joerg.hampel]

With the last post being nearly 5 years old, perhaps someone has found a ways to achieve something like this?

I'm using vi.lib\AppBuilder\AB_API_Simple\Build.vi for programmatically building stuff, and I'd really like the possibility to register for a user event, similar to the NI System Configuration Toolkit (vi.lib\nisyscfg\Register User Event.vi).

(cross-posted here)