Finding VIs present in an EXE

[SreeRanjani]

Hi All,

I need to write a program to find VIs that are present in an EXE by using EXE reference only that I will get by using "Open Application Reference" function, I reffered to few sites but couldn't get a clear idea if this could be done or not,Is there any way to achieve this,if so please let me know how this can be done.

Thanks in Advance,

Sree

[Yamaeda]

You could in older versions of LV, you cant any longer.

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[Guruthilak]

Since you already know the name of the vi to be launched, just hardwire the name of the vi and build the path to launch it ...I both exe as well as In development mode

You might have to strip the path to this dynamic vi couple of times based on your directory structure

[Hooovahh]

I believe you can still do this in modern versions of LabVIEW.  You need the Application >> Exported VIs in Memory property node on the application instance.  This will give you a top level VI.  Open a reference to this VI, then you can use the Get VI Dependencies Names And Paths to get a list of all the SubVIs that main VI has.  I haven't done this in a while but I think it works this way.

[Guruthilak]

provided that the main vi calls the subvi (static call) am i right?

[Hooovahh]

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@Guruthilak wrote:

provided that the main vi calls the subvi (statically?) am i right?

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I think so.  If you have it called using a static VI reference I think it will be included in that list.  If you choose to add a VI to the Always Include when building an EXE, then it won't be listed under it as a dependency, but there is a chance it will be listed as an Exported VI, which actually returns an array of VIs.

[Guruthilak]

if "its in always included list" then just use the path of this vi...