Can LabVIEW install an application without the National Instruments directory?

[bmihura]

I've written a LabVIEW application for some people who would rather not have anybody know their application was written in LabVIEW.

They have nothing against LabVIEW, but don't want their competition knowing their development platform, whatever it is.

LabVIEW's installation process creates a "National Instruments" directory and lets you know it's doing so during the install. Is there some way to rename that before the install, or if not, then after the install?

[LesHammer]

> I've written a LabVIEW application for some people who would rather
> not have anybody know their application was written in LabVIEW.

> LabVIEW's installation process creates a "National Instruments"
> directory and lets you know it's doing so during the install.

And it would only take a few seconds to bring up the monitor that
shows LabVIEW Runtime is running. So even if you could get the
install to hide the information, it would still be there. And
even if you managed to change the name of the RT file, a "strings"
command on the .exe file will spew LabVIEW all over the place.

Now ordinary people might not go to that extent, but if I were the
competition I'd at least check out that much. After all, when I
worked at Agilent and Tektronics made a LAN-GPIB converter that was
competition to my project, it didn't take too long to find out that
Tektronics VISA was a modified NI VISA. 🙂

Les.Hammer@CompleteTest.com

[Donald]

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@bmihura wrote:
I've written a LabVIEW application for some people who would rather not have anybody know their application was written in LabVIEW. They have nothing against LabVIEW, but don't want their competition knowing their development platform, whatever it is.
LabVIEW's installation process creates a "National Instruments" directory and lets you know it's doing so during the install. Is there some way to rename that before the install, or if not, then after the install?

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It might be rather pointless since the LabVIEW software licence agreement down in Item 12.A.1 states:

12. Application Deployment. ...
A. Distribution Requirements.
1. You include the following copyright notice "Copyright ©[yr] National Instruments Corporation. All Rights Reserved" in the Authorized Application's About Box and in the applicable written documentation distributed with each copy of the Authorized Application (you may include your own copyright notice with the foregoing notice);

[LesHammer]

> It might be rather pointless since the LabVIEW software licence agreement ...

Good point. In fact, I make it a point to brag "Powered by NI LabVIEW",
or some such statement - not just hide it in the about box. It lets
people know up front that there's a good engine behind the code.
It's not like the competition doesn't know LabVIEW exists.

-- Les