How can I programatically determine if running from a vi or from an exe?♦

[tdurand]

Years ago, I thought I could use the Call Chain to determine this.  Perhaps my memory is wrong....

I need to determine whether running from a .vi or from an .exe so I can determine what the file version of the .exe is, if it's running from an .exe.

Thanks,
Tom

[altenbach]

Use an application property and select property "app.kind". Here are the possible results:

1. Development System, including the Base Package, Full Development System, or Professional Development System
2. Run-Time System
3. Student Edition
4. Embedded LabVIEW, including LabVIEW Real-Time
5. Evaluation
6. Custom

[tdurand]

You're a fast typist!  Thanks!
-Tom

[altenbach]

Well, I copied the table from the labVIEW help. (Almost) no typing required. 😄

[xkenneth]

How can you do this on a RT target? It returns Embedded whether or not the application is compiled.

[pRoFiT]

Try this.

p.s. this works in windows. on an embeded device you may want to reverse the logic and see if the file is .vi ? Not sure if you get a .exe file on the embeded device since it's probably running linux on it.

Message Edited by pRoFiT on 01-06-2010 08:12 PM