Desktop shortcut pointing to LLB no longer opens the top vi in LabVIEW 8.5

[nocotua]

Up until LV version 8.5, creating a desktop shortcut to an LLB (using Explorer) for my users always opened the top vi which was set to run on opening.  Now the LLB manager opens and the user has double click the top vi in the list to get the same result.  What happened ?

[cplaw]

This is also a problem for us. Is there an option to make this work again?

[Matthew_Kelton]

There's two ways I found.

1.  Instead of making a shortcut to the LLB, make a shortcut to LabVIEW.  Right-clik on the shortcut and choose Properties.  In the Target Field, you should see the path to LabVIEW.  After that, enter "<Path to LLB>\<Top Level VI>.vi".  This will launch LabVIEW and tell it to open the VI inside the llb.  So, for example, a user here posted a library recently.  My shortcut Traget looks like "J:\Program Files\National Instruments\LabVIEW 8.5\LabVIEW.exe" "C:\NI pics\Keithley Data File\Keithley_DataFile.llb\Keithley_DataFile_migrated.vi"

2.  Take your top level VI out of the llb.  So you have My Application.vi and My Application.llb.  Then you just create a shortcut to the VI.

[DOC-doc]

I strongly recommand to stop using llb.

It happens that they can get corrupted, and the entire library is unreadable.

I would suggest to use directory instead.

Cheers