Issue with How Do I Run an Executable in the Background ?

[pbuerki]

Hi,

I am trying to run a LabVIEw executable in the background, but none of the methods described in the discussion forum and on ni.com seems to be working. I am using LV 2011 on a Win 7 64-bit machine in case this matters.

I tried the method described in "How Do I Run an Executable in the Background as a Start-Up Application?" (https://knowledge.ni.com/KnowledgeArticleDetails?id=kA00Z0000019KrbSAE&l=en-US but I still see a fragment of a window at the bottom near the start-button (Exhibit 1). Exhibit 2 shows that it only consists of the title bar. (I have customized the window appearance as described, and added the two items

HideRootWindow=True

UseTaskBar=FALSE

to the *.ini file.)

I also tried disabling all the other items in the Customize Window Appearance menu with the same result.

Then I tried the method described in "Running a LabVIEW Executable as a Background Process" (https://knowledge.ni.com/KnowledgeArticleDetails?id=kA03q000000YIIzCAO&l=en-US) adding the FP.Open method to the VI and setting the state to hidden. I got the same result (Exhibit 1).

Is there anything I need to do in addition or different for my windows version? I appreciate your help. Thank you.

[JÞB]

(I have customized the window appearance as described, and added the two items

HideRootWindow=True

UseTaskBar=FALSE

to the *.ini file.)

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No you did not

They need to go in the exe's ini so the exe sees them

[pbuerki]

Actually I did when I tried out the first method. Then for the second method I tried both with and without these two items in the ini file with the same result( Exhibit 1)

[pbuerki · Accepted solution]

I found the issue. It was an incorrect directory name for the build. I kept running an older version of the executable with the default window settings. The method described in How Do I Run an Executable in the Background as a Start-Up Application?" (https://knowledge.ni.com/KnowledgeArticleDetails?id=kA00Z0000019KrbSAE&l=en-US works.

Sorry, all for wasting your time. Mea culpa.

Peter

[JÞB]

That is great!

First- I'm happy you found the trouble

Second- more details for the next guy?

Kudos!