Provide a start path (folder) in a file dialog box

[Norbert_B]

Because it is subject to change/being replaced. If it gets replaced (because e.g. Windows 7 does not support this function anymore), you will mess up the whole program. If you'd use the express vi, it will refer to a new dialog primitive keeping your application alive.

I understand that you don't like express vis much. Nevertheless, some are very good and really help in the developement process. So keeping express vis out of your application "just because they are express vis" is a bit..... hasty.

Norbert 

[ncolson]

I know this is 3 years old, but for posterity - I was having the same problem when calling the File Dialog express vi from TestStand, and it turned out I wasn't escaping my backslashes in the "start path" field with extra backslashes.