Disabling LabVIEW navigation dialog on exit

[Jake Stern]

When exiting LabVIEW, the navigation dialog always pops up. There's the option to disable it on launch, and to make it Large or Small, but is there a way to make it not appear when quitting? It would be nice if LabVIEW simply exits when the last open VI is closed or when File>Exit is selected.

[Labviewguru]

Contact NI and ask them to add this option. To my knowledge, there is no way to change this.

I believe that the reason for this is to initiate some cleanup that is required when LabVIEW exits. One thing I am sure of is that VIs remain in memory until this dialog is closed, so its probably a way to retain these, and a cleaner way to exit and prompt for a save.

Until then....just deal with it. If it is a matter of you are running target (deployed) VIs in a development environment, and don't want the users to see LabVIEW dialogs, then you do have the option of just running in the Runtime environment. I have an article being reviewed about deploying "Loader" applications, which may be of interest to you. Let me know, and I will get you a URL for the arti
cle, or advise you on using a modified version of "File Manager.vi" to open VIs in the runtime environment.

Good luck

[Bill Trump]

Have you tried the Quit LabVIEW VI in the Functions:Application Control
palette... put it outside your main loop and wire a true boolean to it from
inside the loop... when you exit the main loop (i.e. your application)...
LabVIEW closes everything... I think it'll do what you're looking for.

Bill


Jake Stern wrote in message
news:5065000000080000007D550000-1027480788000@exchange.ni.com...
> When exiting LabVIEW, the navigation dialog always pops up. There's
> the option to disable it on launch, and to make it Large or Small, but
> is there a way to make it not appear when quitting? It would be nice
> if LabVIEW simply exits when the last open VI is closed or when
> File>Exit is selected.

[Matt_K]

Unfortunately, there is no way to configure LabVIEW to exit when the last VI is closed. As Labviewguru suggested, I will pass this suggestion along to R&D. The method Bill suggested is probably the best option you have right now.

Matt Kisler
Applications Engineer
National Instruments