Problems with tab control and window size in deployed application

[bob_miller]

I have an application I am attempting to deploy to
an XP box with no LabVIEW development system/DSC installed.
This uses no DSC features requiring a run-time license. An
earlier post of mine submitted to get assistance on runtime
errors (missing dlls) describes this application in detail.

Having gotten past the former set of landmines, I am now
dealing with what apprars to be t\the next two issues:

1) At startup, the window briefly opens at the correct size
and then immediately resizes to about a 300x300 pixel screen
displaying the upper left corner of the front panel. I have
done no deliberate window resizing in the code.

2) shortly after this, the window appears to go blank.
However, scrolling around reveals that what has essentially
happened is that the tab control and all controls placed on
it have disappeared, leaving a few scattered controls which
were not placed on the tab control and either over or under
it. These controls, which happen to include "stop" and "close",
appear to operate correctly, implying the application is
running, but most of the front panel has disappeared.

The application runs fine deployed and installed on an XP box
with LabVIEW Professional Control Edition also installed; the
bad behavior only occurs when the app is installed on an XP box
which has never seen a LabVIEW installation. I have seen the same
behavior on two different XP boxes, one XP home and one XP pro.

Has anyone seen these behaviors? Am I perhaps missing some
support file in the install package? Such behavior is becoming
quite frustrating, particularly when I was expecting a straightforward
install of a fairly unsophisticated VI and front panel.

Bob

[tst]

This sounds interesting.
Can you post a copy for the rest of us to see?
As for actually helping you, and not just satisfying our curiousity, if you start cutting pieces of the code you will probably end up finding the source of the problem (and we won't have too big a program to handle). Since DSC is a likely suspect, you may want to start there.
Also, are you creating an installer and using that to install? If not, you may wish to try that.