Changing Labels

[Engineering Intern]

Well now I have modified the original 1665 file so that the labels are the way they should be but when it runs the old labels still show up.  Does the exe file that calls it need to be modified?

[RavensFan]

First, are you sure the program running on the actual machine is an .exe?  Or is it a .vi run within the labview environment?  An .exe is a compiled version of a .vi.  If you modified the .vi but are running an .exe, you are not going to see any changes.  You would have to rebuild the application to make a new .exe.

If you modified the .vi and are running .vi's on the actual machine, have you copied the modified .vi to the actual machine?

[Engineering Intern]

Yes I put the modified vi onto the actual machine and I have not seen changes.  It is definitely an exe and I am trying to figure out how to build a new one using the help menu but I am not sure if I am doing it right.  I had it configure all the vi's and saved them and then went to the tools>>build option and I have that menu up but I am not sure if I am entering everything right.  It says something about your "top vi" I think it said.  Which file would that be?  I am assuming that is the 1665 and that the source files would be the rest?  What about the files that are not vi's?

[Dennis_Knutson]

Before you go traipsing down the garden path with an exe, why don't you try running the modified VI. You already said that you weren't sure if the source code you modified and the password protected code are different. Just start up LabVIEW and load the 1665 Main Vi that you modified. If that works as expected, then you can try to build it.

Before you attempt to do a build, look around for a file with a .bld extnesion. This is a build file that will contain everything necessary to re-create the exe. If you can find it, on the build application screen, you select load, select the file. After it's loaded, all you have to do is click the 'Build' button at the bottom of the screen.

[Engineering Intern]

Well, with swapping the two 1665 files the display did not change so I built a new exe file.  Foolishly I replaced the password protected files with the copies I had not realizing that whoever password protected them apparently modified them before adding the password; we have no copies of these files.  Now there is a noise problem.  Browsing through old files left by a former engineer I have found that they did have the problem with this to begin with but I could find nothing addressing how they fixed it.  Which of those files would this modification have been added?  I am going to be in trouble if we end up having to call the company that created this program in to fix it.  Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

[ClintM]

What about System Restore to recover the lost files?

Clint M

National Instruments