How to edit ABOUT and HELP contents after app build operation?

[yjiang]

I hope people can read the HELP contents and ABOUT information from the program after I build the VI into an exe file or an install file. I don't know where to edit those informations. Thanks!

[EdDickens]

After you build a VI into an application, (.exe) nothing in it can be changed since any changes would require the application to be recompiled, and that requires the LabVIEW development environment.

On a Windows PC, the "Help" file is external to the application, so you could setup in the VI Proerties > Documentation the link to the exteranl Help file, then edit that file whenever you need to. This path would have to setup before you build the .exe and would not be able to be changed.

You could use a similar approach for an "About" screen. Make a sub-vi for the About screen, and have the application builder set to "Small target file with exteranl file for suVIs" under the Build Options. This will create two files for your built application. An .exe th
at is your top level VI, and an .llb that contains all your subVIs. When you need to change the About info, you would just need to modify your original About dialog, then copy it into the .llb of the built application overwritting the original one.

If this is not what you are asking, please provide some more detail.

Ed