'Help for this VI' Shortcut

[icastillejos]

I am using TS3.5/LV8.2. In my dev station I set a shortcut for the LabVIEW menu item 'Help'>'Help for this VI' to F2 which I then link to a .chm file an works fine but when I move the VI to another dev station the shortcut disappears. So at this point my theory is that this shortcut is not set in the VI but in the LV DevSystem, please shed some light on me if I am wrong...

Now, I want to deploy these VIs (50+) to several Production Stations (only LV RTE) so I wonder if there is a way to set this shortcut in some way other than adding an F2 event structure to launch the .chm file in all the VIs, which would be really really painful.

Thanx,

[Tunde_A]

Hi,

The "Help>>Help for this VI" is an application item tag. Any modification to the shortcut key under "Tools>>Option>>ShortCut menu" applies to the LabVIEW environment and not the VI which eventually adds a token to LabVIEW configuration file (Labview.ini).  So you will need to apply the same setting in another LabVIEW development system.

However, with LabVIEW executable, you will have to create a run time menu with a user item tag that links to the chm file. 

Tunde. 

Message Edited by Tunde A on 04-26-2007 07:43 PM