How to Pass Command line arguments to an exe created in LV8.0

[sodlb]

Hi Friends,

I have Created an exe in LV8.0, which accepts the Folder path as input and executes.

I want to call this exe passing the parameter (i.e folder path in my case)  from the command line argument. How to pass arguments to the exe ?

Generally we may be having different types of input parameters to a vi like numeric control, string, boolean etc..If we create an exe that needs three input parameters among which one is boolean, other is string and third is a numeric value.

How to pass these different types of input controls to the exe as parameters in command line at the same time?

Thanks and Regards,

SODLB

[gmart]

This topic should give you some pointers - https://forums.ni.com/t5/Example-Code/Command-Line-Options-in-LabVIEW-Executables/ta-p/3996274

[tst]

I don't have any experience with the 8.x application builder, but the 7.x one has a checkbox for passing the arguments to the executable.

As for reading them, there should be an example in the example finder (Help>>Find Examples) which shows how to do this. If you want to pass multiple parameters, I suggest you use a structure similar to NAME=VALUE, so that you can parse each element to find the = and then use a case structure to decide what to do with the parameters. This allows your users to enter or not enter any of the switches.

[waldemar.hersacher]

First you have to set in the Build Specifications>>Properties>>Advanced the checkbox named "Pass all commandline arguments to application". In the application use the Property Node App>>Application>>Command line arguments. This will give you an array with an entry for each argument.