How do I launch other applications from LV. And wait until they are closed to continue.

[MMMarty]

Hello I am a neophyte LabVIEW developer and my first question is about calling and or opening other applications from LV. I’m pretty sure it can be done but I am not sure how to accomplish this with some modicum of ease. Some of the particular applications I would like to be able to open are documents in MSWord or Excel, and a Crystal Report from either version 8.5 or 11.  Any clues?

Thanks,

MMMarty

[smercurio_fc]

Use the "System Exec" function. Just feed in the full path to the executable you want to run.

[Dennis_Knutson]

Not sure about Crystal Reports but if you want 'some modicum of ease', then you should buy the Report Generation Toolkit if you want to do more than just run an exe file. You control Word and Excel with ActiveX and the toolkit makes this simpler. You can also search the forum for 'Excel' and 'Word' to dind numerous examples.

Message Edited by Dennis Knutson on 10-24-2006 08:02 AM