creating a project

[locman]

I read a tutorial that said i must use a project to build a stand-alone applications.  And i looked under File but i could not find Project anywhere.  is the Project option not available for LabVIEW 7.1?

[MikeS81]

Hello locman,

with LabView 7.1 you need no project and there is no function to create a project. You can build standalone applications with "Tools/Build Application or Shared Library".

Mike

[locman]

the reason that i asked about creating project is because I have problem opening my VIs.  When i opened my Main.vi LabVIEW automatically loads subVIs from LabVIEW directory instead loading them from the same directory as Main.vi.  As result different subVIs with the same name were used.  Is there anyway to have LabVIEW loads my subVIs?

[MikeS81]

Hi locman

the best way to solve this problem is to remove the vis you don´t want to use (zip theme or something else) and than to load your main.vi to correct the links. After that it should work correctly.

Mike

[locman]

i'm not sure which VIs to remove (zip), my subVIs or those provided from National Instrument library. Can you expand your idea a bit more in detail?

[Dennis_Knutson]

If you modified VIs that shipped with LabVIEW, what you should have done is renamed them. Never modfiy a shipping VI without renaming it and saving it in a folder other than the LabVIEW one. Then, you would not have the problem of loading the VIs from the wrong location. Since you are now stuck, you could zip the VIs in the LabVIEW folder and remove them temporarily. It should prompt you to find them and then you can point to the new versions. Once you've done that, open the subVIs, rename them, and then save them and the top level VI. Once you've done that, it should be safe to restore the original VIs in the LabVIEW folder.

[locman]

that works,

thank you so much, Mike!