How can I start and stop another software (ex. MatLab, AFM software, Analysis software...) from within LabView and send parameters to these applications?

[Hugo SMD]

How can I start another software (ex. MatLab, AFM software, Analysis software...) from within LabView and send parameters to these applications? The aim is: start the software from the atomic force microscope and tell the software where to write the results. When that AFM software has made the mesurements and written the results is can be closed and the analysis 1 software has to be started, with the parameter where to find the result file from the AFM software. When analysis is done, the analysis 1 has to write results to a file, has to be stopped and analysis 2 has to be started, with as input parameter the location of the output file of analysis 1.

[xdaf]

You can use the "System exec" vi to send a system command (as in a command-line shell). From the BD, connectivity -> libraries & executables -> system exec.vi

[F._Schubert]

If the software supports ActiveX you can use it as well to launch and Exit these App's.

If your App is written in LV, you can also use VI Server methodes to do the job.

Felix