Packaging my VIs

[vishi anand]

I made an application which I want to email to another person to test on
his//her machine. Is there a way where LV will bundle all the VIs that I
have used so I can zip them for emailing purposes. I tried making the EXE
but that doesn't help. I want to show the other person how to write program
using my VIs so that's why I want to ship an example program that I
developed.



vishi

[Jonnie_5]

Under file->save with options choose development distribution and include vis in libraries.
This will put ALL vis into a single library.

[mikeporter]

There's a couple options to the function J5 mentioned. The default is to save all the VI's into a single library. However, if the person you are wanting to send this code is going to want to reuse some of your work, it can complicate the process of working with the code. Another option is to preserve the hierarchy. This saves all the vis in a root directory that you define, but inside this root directory are folders that mirror the directory structure you used when creating the code originally.

This is nice because if you send multiply libraries to a person at different times they can end up with dozens of copies of the same common VIs scattered all over their hard disk--which sooner or later becomes a problem.

Mike...