How to add a LLB as a file to a project?

[Tweety]

Hello,

I will add a LLB as a file to a project.

If I add the LLB into the project explorer the LLB will be include as a folder and not as a file.

I found the following description on the NI homepage:

You also can add an LLB to a project as a file. If you add an LLB as a file, the VIs in the LLB do not appear in the Project Explorer window.
Right-click the target or a folder under the target, select Add File from the shortcut menu, and use the file dialog box to navigate to the LLB you want to add.
Select the open folder icon labeled VI with a single period to the right and click the Select button.

But when I navigate to the LLB, I don't have an icon labeled VI.

Have anybody an idea or can check this please?

greetings

Sascha

[Tweety]

Nobody an idea or tested?

[TCPlomp]

I have tried this, and it looks kinda weird, but what you should do is navigate into the llb, and select the top-row ('.') and hit OK

Ton

[Tweety]

Hello Ton,

thanks for your help.

Maybe I don't understand your description but that doesn' t works.
When I navigate into the llb an select the top-row "..", it jumps outside the llb and I must select again a file to insert.

It's possible that you post a screenshot of this action?


Sascha

[JeffBoettcher]

Hey TonP, might you have done this in 8.0?

I believe the "." item in the LLB file list is not present in 8.2.  This was reported to R&D (41REGG7G) for further investigation.  If at some point in the not-too-distant future you hear about a LabVIEW 8.2 maintenance release, you might check the readme to see if an issue with this ID number has already been fixed.  😉

[TCPlomp]

So Sacha, you should probably add a vi inside the llb and then manually edit the .lvproj file..... (or wait until the not too distant future, is the not too distant past)

Ton

[zou]

It's a bug in LabVIEW 8.2.

You can do this in LabVIEW 8.0, and then import the project into LabVIEW 8.2.

George Zou

http://gtoolbox.yeah.net

[Tweety]

Hello,

thank you all for your help.


Sascha

[Wayne.C]

Here is a programatic method of adding a ".llb" to an existing 8.2 project.  Obtained from an unnamed source at NI.    It seems to work.  Save the attached "Import_LLB.vi" to the project directory and add the file to the project view.  Open up the vi, browse to the desired ".llb" and then run the vi.

[D60]

Dear Wayne C!

Where is the attached VI?

Thanks