How to call another program from LabVIEW?

[asc01001]

Hi!

Is there anyone that can answer my question? I have found a similar thread where the user needed to call labVIEW from some program but I want to do the opposite.

I made a program in labVIEW that communicates via COM-ports (serial communication) with the processor I use at the job (Ubicom´s IP2022).

Now I want to add more funcionality to this program. I want to be able to program re-program IP2022 through this LabVIEW application.

The programming is done via an Ethernet-dongle. I start a program called IP2kProg, I write the ip-address of the dongle and the program-file (.elf) downloads at this address. But how can I do this from

LabVIEW, do I need to open IP2kProg or can I send some values to it via LabViEW?

Ant suggestions?

Thanks, Amir

[Khalid]

Amir,

There are couple of options:

1.  If your IP2kProg program has a command-line interface, you can use LabVIEW's System Exec.vi and send the commands and parameters to it. 

2.  If the IP2kProg has an API / exported functions, you can call them from LabVIEW using the Call Library Function Node. 

Hope this gives you some ideas. 

-Khalid