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Can Excel run a Labview executable?

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Hello Everyone:

 

Can Excel run a Labview Executable?

 

I would like to open an Excel File, fill some data on sheet1

and then PRESS a button on the Excel sheet1.

 

By pressing this button, it will start running a Labview executable.

 

thank you all,

 

\\carlos in Sunnyvale, CA

 

 

 

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A LabVIEW executable is an executable like any other executable. As long as the LabVIEW Run-Time Engine is installed you can call it from within an Excel macro using the Shell() command as in Call Shell(executable).

 

(EDIT: Accidentally clicked Post before I had finished)

 

OR, are you trying to call it using ActiveX with LabVIEW as an ActiveX server?

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I believe this questions belongs more to some kind of MS Office software (specifically Excel), than to this forum. I think you should assing a macro to the button and you should call the exe through the macro command.

 

The macro command should look like this:

 

Sub LabVIEW()
Dim RetVal
RetVal = Shell("C:\Program Files\National Instruments\LabVIEW 2009\LabVIEW.exe", 1)
End Sub

 

Remember, you must have macros enabled. 

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Yes you can - in fact there's an example that ships with LV that does exactly what you are wanting to do.

 

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Thank you all:

 

Mike, you mentioned that LV shipps with example?

What is the name of the example?

 

thank you,

 

\\carlos

 

 

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The example that Mike is referring to is a workbook called "freqresp.xls" that is in the <LabVIEW>\examples\comm folder. This uses LabVIEW as an ActiveX Server, which is why I was asking whether you were looking to just launch a LabVIEW app that you built or whether you wanted to control LabVIEW using the LabVIEW ActiveX Server method.
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Thank you SMercurio:

 

I just wanted to run a Labview application.

 

Now, I would like to minimize it or make the Labview application invisible...and quit after the app runs...

 

Thanks for your response, I'll look at freqresp.xls

 

\\carlos

 

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