is it possible to run a vi in the background of the system?

[slingee]

I want to run a VI in the backgroud like MS outlook, so that I can minimize it and it will do its thing while I use other programs

[daveTW]

Hi  slingee,
if you just minimize your program, it still runs. In LV8 you can specify how the window will look like after program- start in VI-Properties --> Window Run-Time-Position.  But  if you want to hide the corresponding button in the Windows-start-panel you need to use Win-API functions and I doubt you can hide the button for the LV Runtime, if you make an application.
Dave

[slingee]

Thanks Dave

So there is absolutely no way we can hide that LV runtime button eh