stop automatic start

[zacseph]

Hi - just a quick question for y'all!! I have just finished a LabVIEW program that operates some old equipment in my university, and built it into a program - however, it seems to run automatically as soon as i open the program, which i really wasn't expecting!! Is there an easy way to disable this, or add a start button or something??
(apologies if this is something stupidly obvious!! :))

[LV_Pro]

 Go into the actual toplevel vi's properties (by right clicking on the vi's icon and selecting VI properties. In the properties there is a selection "Window appearance", which has some radio buttons, one of which is "custom". After selecting that, click the "customize" button, "deselect" all the other buttons except the "show run button", close out of the properties windows, save the vi. Open the application builder and there is a tab called "VI settings" which has check boxes for the various VI's behavior, one of which is "Run  when opened". Now unchecking that will stop the autorun feature.   Of course, you will have made sure that your highest level vi has a "stop" button, or some other means to terminate your program.


Good Luck,

[DFGray]

If you want to open the VI without running it, drop it as a subVI into another VI, then double click to open it.  This will allow you to modify it without running it.