How Can I run multiple independant sessions of LabVIEW on one pc?

[Herman]

I have tried to accomplish this by creating a second LabVIEW.exe named LabVIEW2.exe. Then I run the original and launch my application, run LabVIEW2.exe and I get a new splash screen but no new instance of LabVIEW in the Task Manager. I have seen this work before on different computers running all the same software. Any suggestions........

[Ex-NISH]

I have tried these things:

1. Run one executable LV application and launch LabVIEW and debug another VI.

2. Compile 2 executable VIs and run them together.

I got 2 sessions in task manager in each try.

Hope this helps

[Jeremy Braden]

You can run two different versions of LabVIEW at the same time--I do this all the time. You can also run LabVIEW executables in parallel with other LV executables and with the development environment. I have yet to see two instances of the same version of the LabVIEW development environment running at the same time. I would have guessed that it could not be done. Can you provide any more info about the computers that did this?

[wiebe@CARYA]

Why would you want this?


"Herman" wrote in message
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> I have tried to accomplish this by creating a second LabVIEW.exe named
> LabVIEW2.exe. Then I run the original and launch my application, run
> LabVIEW2.exe and I get a new splash screen but no new instance of
> LabVIEW in the Task Manager. I have seen this work before on
> different computers running all the same software. Any
> suggestions........

[Greg_McKaskle2]

> Can you provide any more info
> about the computers that did this?

Some applications on Windows will open a new instance each time their
EXE is opened or double clicked on. Since LV is able to multitask many
different VIs and applications, and it is typically useful to reuse
subVIs, so it was decided that these actions would just open the already
running LV. If you want to run more than one LV, rename it. Whenever
you are wanting to open a VI into a particular LV, you really can't
trust double clicking. The OS decides which app to launch or connect
to, and it is rather difficult to predict what the outcome will be. For
this reason, either drag-n-drop the VI/LLB to the EXE, or use open from
within the EXE.

Greg McKaskle