How to avoid launching Labview VI when invoking it in Teststand environment?

[Aaron_Wang]

Hi, friends.

I'm a learner of teststand. I wrote some VIs by Labview. Now I want to invoke them in teststand environment.

But when I run the sequence. Labview will be automatically launched.

How to avoid launching Labview when I run the sequence?

Thanks.

[PhillipBrooks · Accepted solution]

LabVIEW programs require an engine to execute. Under the TestStand Configure pulldown, select Adapters. You can change the LabVIEW adapter to select the run-time engine rather than the development system.

This should prevent the LabVIEW main screen from appearing, but you will not be able to edit your LabVIEW VIs while they are running from TestStand using the run-time engine.

Message Edited by Phillip Brooks on 10-13-2008 07:12 AM

[dowNow]

If TestStand is calling LabVIEW VIs then LabVIEW must be launched. It only takes awhile the first time. The main job, and main power source of TestStand is calling code from other applications like .Net, any .dll, Java, LabVIEW, CVI, and communicating with them through .Net (Microsoft inter-application communications). TestStand isn't really useful running just by itself. Like the previous post says, you can change to the LabVIEW runtime engine which is lighter weight, but you must have som form of LabVIEW to run VIs.

[Aaron_Wang]

Thanks for your reply.