"open/create/replace file"

[PaulG.]

Under the file I/O functions palette there is a vi named "Open/Create/Replace File.vi". My application builder has trouble with this file name. Is there any reason  to name a vi with /'s? Seems to me that is not a valid file name convention in Windows.

PaulG.

7.1.1

2000/XP

[shoneill]

Yes it's a pain.  Yes it's not very compatible.

Yes you can rename it to include "-"s instead of "\"s and stick it in the same llb as the original.  I always make a copy, draw a nice big red X on the old one and leave them side-by side in my VI.lib folder.  That way I get around the problem.....



Hope this helps



Shane.

Message Edited by shoneill on 03-30-200602:34 PM

[Darren]

We addressed this issue in LabVIEW 8.0...the Open/Create/Replace File.vi is no longer on the palettes...it has been replaced with an Open/Create/Replace File function (so it's no longer a VI).  There were actually a lot of enhancements made to File I/O in LabVIEW 8.0, this is just one of them.

-D