How to replace the logo of LabView at the top left corner of the program?

[Garfield]

Hello,

I want to write a real software with labview, so I want to
replace the icon of labview (at the top left corner) with my
own logo, but I don't how to do it, could someone give me some
tips?

Thanks,

Le

[Satans Little Helper]

As far as I know, you can only change the labview logo when you build your project into a stand alone application. If you have the application builder software, then have a look in the help files to see how to do it.

[rolfk]

Le.Wang wrote:

> I want to write a real software with labview, so I want to
> replace the icon of labview (at the top left corner) with my
> own logo, but I don't how to do it, could someone give me some
> tips?

In the development environment there is no easy way to do that. When you
build your application in the Application Builder look at the
Application Settings tab in there. You need an external Icon Editor
though, to create the icon if you can't "steal" it ready made from
somewhere. Make sure you have a BW and 16 color icon for the small 16*16
and 32*32 sized icons. The application builder does not use any other
icons from the icon resource.

Rolf Kalbermatter

[m3nth]

If you want to mess around with an executable that's already been compiled you can use a resource editor to change the icon or add icons with higher resolution and with more colors than the LabVIEW application builder will allow.

One example of a resource editor is the PE Resource Explorer which is freely available for download (find it using Google).

[rolfk]

m3nth wrote:

> If you want to mess around with an executable that's already been
> compiled you can use a resource editor to change the icon or add icons
> with higher resolution and with more colors than the LabVIEW
> application builder will allow.
>
> One example of a resource editor is the PE Resource Explorer which is
> freely available for download (find it using Google).

This doesn't work for adding higher resolutions. The way LabVIEW embeds
the VI library consisting of the built VIs to run, requires that the
executable is not modified in any way, which changes its size at all.

Rolf Kalbermatter

[m3nth]

Well I thought I did this previously but apparently not... I tried it just now and you're correct (of course). One more reason for NI to put this into the Application Builder 🙂

[zou]

If you mean titlebar icon, take a look G Toolbox at:

http://gtoolbox.yeah.net

You can replace the titlebar icon of a VI or all VIs
with "Replace Titlebar Icon.vi".