LabVIEW executable subVI

[SteveR_]

Hi everyone,

I am looking to turn my program into an executable. I understand that upon turning my program into an executable the main VI will then be lost an I can't edit it again. I wanted to know if the SubVI's and controls used will aso be lost upon creating the executable? I only ask as I will want to use these again and therefore don't really want to make backups of all my subVI's and executables that are in various different locations.

Thanks in advance.

[udka · Accepted solution]

Executable is different and your development code(VI,Subvi) is different.

-You can't edit exe, you can always have your development code modify it and can again create different exe.

-You can check version control SVN if you want to have multiple versions of code.

-More here: https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-10122 and http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/C751F800E258087B86257535006DB160

[SteveR_]

So just to confirm. If I create an exe, I obviously can't edit the exe but I wont loose any of the VI files and will still be edit those to my hearts content if I wanted to update the program at a later date.

[MangeshD]

If you have a LabVIEW development PC and the code for the EXE that you generated and if you have not used any delete commands for deleting code... .. Then dont worry..you can edit your code..!

[prettypwnie]

Absolutely! This is what your project will look like when you build an executable:

All your VIs will still be there under My Computer, but you will have this extra thing (called "My Application" here, but yours will have an actually relevant name) under Build Specifications and that is your executable. Any time you want, you can modify your VIs and then right click on the executable and re-build it to make a new executable relecting those changes.

[udka]

Yes you can edit your code later and update your exe.