Build Hangs labview environment

[ArchivedPointOnePa]

I just spent 3 hours adding some VI's to a Labview 8.6 project space.

Before archiving the changes, I tested to make sure it would still build.

The build process says that it completes, but that then hangs Labview 8.6.

I have to kill the Labview process to recover, and no error report is generated.

I'm in the process of unrolling/reimplemented the changes, but this is the

second time that the build process has hung labview when new changes

are introduced.  I search the Labview forums site and I've not found any

hints at what the problem might be.  I'm going to reboot to see if that

has any affect (running Windows Vista Business  SP2.  And no, I'm

not updating to Labview 2009 until this project has been completed,

(too risky).

[BCho]

Hey PointOnePa,

Does this hang have anything to do with the changes that you made to your project? If you roll back the changes, do you see this same behavior? Have you seen this behavior before? Once you get the message the the build is complete, are you able to exit the build complete window, or does everything hang and the only thing that you can do is kill the LabVIEW process? After you build your exe, are you able to run the application even after killing the LabVIEW process; or do you get errors when you try to run the application.

I would be interested to see if this behavior can be linked to any one change that you made to your project.

[ArchivedPointOnePa]

>Does this hang have anything to do with the changes that you made to your project?

>If you roll back the changes, do you see this same behavior? Have you seen this behavior before?

>Once you get the message the the build is complete, are you able to exit the build complete window,

>or does everything hang and the only thing that you can do is kill the LabVIEW process?

>After you build your exe, are you able to run the application even after killing the LabVIEW process;

>or do you get errors when you try to run the application.

I had added two new Vi's to the application that appear to have caused this problem.  It's repeatable. This is the second time this has occurred in the last week, where I've had to unroll changes to recover and the third time in a month.   Depending upon how I do the build (inside or outside of the build box), it either completes, but hangs the environment or Labview just goes away without any warning.   I've never attempted to run the generated EXE.  The application runs fine within the labview environment.

I suspect that one of the two Vi's was somehow corrupted. 

I went back and rebuilt both using a prior checkpoint and now the application builds fine.

Apparently some sequence that I'm using disturbs the compiler....don't know what it is.

[ArchivedPointOnePa]

I may have found my problem....at least it appears to be resolved for now.

I used the free VI analyzer that comes with LabVIEW 8.6 and went through, attempt to resolve each item listed.  I think the candidate that resolve the problem where custom controls with clusters that were not sized "to fit" and had some portions outside of the cluster area.  I don't know why this would cause labVIEW to crash, but correcting these problems has corrected the Searching for Text problem that I was having earilier.