Determining Labview Directory

[Joey Oravec]

Let's say you're making an MSI (Windows Installer) for your labview toolkit
and want to put files into the user.lib or user.lib/errors directory

Of course the user can put Labview wherever he or she feels like. It's
generally c:\program files\National Instruments\Labview 6.1 I suppose, but
that depends upon the version and where the user selected during install.

Is there some kind of registry key or anything to tell me where Labview is
installed, so I can use that instead of just guessing or making my program
search?

-joey

[Joey Oravec]

Answered my own question already, it's

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\National Instruments\LabVIEW\Path

"Joey Oravec" wrote in message
news:3d876bfb@newsgroups....
> Let's say you're making an MSI (Windows Installer) for your labview
toolkit
> and want to put files into the user.lib or user.lib/errors directory
>
> Of course the user can put Labview wherever he or she feels like. It's
> generally c:\program files\National Instruments\Labview 6.1 I suppose, but
> that depends upon the version and where the user selected during install.
>
> Is there some kind of registry key or anything to tell me where Labview is
> installed, so I can use that instead of just guessing or making my program
> search?
>
> -joey
>
>

[Joey Oravec]

Answered my own question already, it's

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\National Instruments\LabVIEW\CurrentVersion

"Joey Oravec" wrote in message
news:3d876bfb@newsgroups....
> Let's say you're making an MSI (Windows Installer) for your labview
toolkit
> and want to put files into the user.lib or user.lib/errors directory
>
> Of course the user can put Labview wherever he or she feels like. It's
> generally c:\program files\National Instruments\Labview 6.1 I suppose, but
> that depends upon the version and where the user selected during install.
>
> Is there some kind of registry key or anything to tell me where Labview is
> installed, so I can use that instead of just guessing or making my program
> search?
>
> -joey
>
>

[crelf]

Don't forget to include the version as well. As you can see from the attached image, different versions will create different registry paths, so you need to be explicit to each version...

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\National Instruments\LabVIEW\*VERSION*\Path

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