Determining if LabVIEW is open from a built application

[John_Morrissey]

I'm trying to determine if the LabVIEW environment is open from a built LabVIEW application. Is there an ActiveX property or method that tells me what apps are in memory? Maybe something in the Windows API?

Any info would be appreciated.
John

[Michael_Munroe]

I use the Open G Tools for that situation. The Get Task List.vi will return an array of strings listing the running applications.

Michael Munroe
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[ian_fung]

If you are only interested to know if your VI is of built application or is of development VI... perhaps this will be able to tell.

ian

[John_Morrissey]

Thanks Michael,
I received another suggestion on how to use the Windows API (User32.dll) to detect LV in the background which worked very well. I'm going to take a look at the site you referenced also.
Thanks again for the response,
John

[John_Morrissey]

Thanks Ian,
Actually, I already know that my VI is built as an application. What I needed to do was give my built application the ability to see if the LabVIEW environment is open on the local system. Someone sent me a suggestion to check the Win32 API (User32.dll) and it worked very well.
Thanks again for taking the time to respond,
John

[BJD1613]

Why don't you just use a property node and use the application>>all vi's in memory. This will work fine in an executable or a DLL.