get username in exe

[Isereau]

Hello,

I am trying to get the current username in an application.  Using a property node to pull the username works great in the development environment however once the vi is build into an exe it fails.  Also tried system exec to pull the environment variable %username% and this as well works great in the development environment however fails once build.  Is there a solution to this? (running LV 2012 on windows7)

Thanks,

[Isereau · Accepted solution]

The example below works in the built exe:

http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/get-user-name/td-p/634611

[JÞB]

Nice link.  But with a win 7 OS its probably easier to just do this

Then I read Derriks comment on the other thread  Do that instead

[Hooovahh]

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@JÞB wrote:

Nice link.  But with a win 7 OS its probably easier to just do this

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An its probably easier to represent a year with 2 digits instead of 4 but that's how you get Y2K, or whatever.

I'd recommend the DLL call, more compatability.  Still tied to Windows of course.