LabVIEW 2009 Executable will not Manually Load VIs

[Gleichman]

Prior to LabVIEW 2009 I've been able create an executable that contained a main VI that was empty. When this executable was run, I could open other VIs on the system through File -> Open of the empty main VI. I used this to check llb distributions for missing/misbehaving VIs on systems with just the LabVIEW runtime. Now in LV2009 when I load a VI through this method ... nothing. No Load. No Error. NOTHING.

"Feature" or bug?

[MarkMoss]

That's a shame.  I frequently use the same "technique" to debug executables which crash during remote debugging (which seems to happen _way_ too frequently in 8.6.1).

If this feature is missing from 2009, I hope the remote debugger has become much more reliable.

Mark Moss

Electrical Validation Engineer

GHSP

[Jarrod_S. · Accepted solution]

I haven't tried to reproduce this, but would a valid workaround be to add a couple of functions to the stub executable to do the following?

• File Dialog to browse for VI
• Open VI Reference
• FP.Open method

[Gleichman]

Thanks Jarrod that works. Any idea why the old method stopped working?

[Jarrod_S.]

It must have something to do with the VIs being in LLBs. It works fine if the VIs aren't in LLBs, which doesn't help your source distribution test case much.

I filed CAR# 195931 to R&D regarding this issue.