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Help needed in adding custom About box in built application in LabVIEW 2009

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Hello,


Can anyone please help me add custom About box in built application in LabVIEW 2009? I had successfully built my application in labview 8.6, 8.5 and 8.2 before to include custom About box. However, when I tried the same method in LabVIEW 2009, it only showed LabVIEW 2009 About box rather than my custom About box.


Here is what I did:

1) Wrote an "About Application.vi" in the built VI folder;

2) Included this "About Application.vi" in the "Always Included" section of Source Files in Application Build;

3) Built the application;

4) Ran the built application, the About box showed only LabVIEW 2009 about (attached a picture).


You can see that on the upper left corner of the picture, there is my custom icon.


Your help is greatly appreciated,


Cathy

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Place a checkmark in the "Use LabVIEW 8.x File Layout" box under the Advanced Category of your Build Specification.

 

 

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Thank you Christian. To place a checkmark in the "Use LabVIEW 8.x File Layout" box did not work. I found a solution though that LabVIEW 2009 has this inherent problem of not showing custom About box, and it has f2 patch to fix this problem.

 

Cathy

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Ah ok! Maybe I had this batch allready installed on the system I was testing this behaviour.

Could you please post the link to this KB here for other users.

 

 

Thanks,

Christian

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Here is the link to download LabVIEW 2009 f2 patch:

 

http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/websearch/C3F88F3596A164AD86257647006FB022?OpenDocument

 

Thanks for the help,

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