LabVIEW 2024 Q3 Crashing with Custom Menus

[crossrulz]

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@avogadro5 wrote:

Will the fix for this arrive via a patch for 2024 Q3 or in 2025 Q1? Upgrading to a new version year is an expensive effort for developers so people shouldn't be upgrading to a version with a major bug that won't be fixed.

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I did find out there was a patch released recently (today?). I will install it in the morning and see if this fix is in there. The bug fix list hasn't been updated yet (as of an hour ago).

[AustinMan@NI]

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the fix did make it into the 2024 Q3 patch that has just released.

According to the 'paperwork' the fix is scheduled to be included in the LabVIEW 2025 Q1 release, which will be shipped on...

David. 

[crossrulz]

Let me fix your post for (changes in red)...

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AustinMan@NI wrote:

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the fix did not make it into the 2024 Q3 patch that has just released.

According to the 'paperwork' the fix is scheduled to be included in the LabVIEW 2025 Q1 release, which willmay be shipped on...

David. 

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I'm just having fun with your post. Thanks for the feedback.

[Petru_Tarabuta]

Related to what aeastet and crossrulz reported above, I can confirm that on my machine:

• Using the Icon Editor Edit >> Import Icon from Owning Library... action always caused LabVIEW to crash.

• The crash does not happen anymore after adding the "skipNavigatorDialog=True" key to LabVIEW.ini, restarting LabVIEW, opening the project by double-clicking it in Windows explorer. In short, the workaround prevents the crash.

OS: Windows 11 64-bit

LabVIEW version: LabVIEW 2024 Q3 64-bit.

[avogadro5]

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@crossrulz wrote:

Let me fix your post for (changes in red)...

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AustinMan@NI wrote:

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the fix did not make it into the 2024 Q3 patch that has just released.

According to the 'paperwork' the fix is scheduled to be included in the LabVIEW 2025 Q1 release, which willmay be shipped on...

David. 

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I'm just having fun with your post. Thanks for the feedback.

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In my testing it is in fact fixed in patch 2... Are people still replicating it on the latest patch? I'm on Windows 10 w/ LV 32 bit.

[aeastet]

I am still seeing it. I am running Windows 11 and 64 bit LabVIEW.

[Quiztus2]

Will be a tough one - New bugs from 25 versus this one fixed

[Petru_Tarabuta]

To confirm, the exact LabVIEW version on my machine is 24.3.1f1 64-bit. I have not tried the f2 patch yet.

[crossrulz · Accepted solution]

I finally got around to testing this with the patch 2 installed and I am no longer getting a crash. The exact bug in the fixed list is #2826505, LabVIEW Crashes When Using Custom VI Menus and Actor Framework.

LabVIEW 2024Q3 f2, 64-bit

Windows 10

[Petru_Tarabuta]

I too am happy to report that the Edit >> Import Icon from Owning Library... bug does not occur anymore after upgrading to the f2 patch.

Additionally, there was a second bug which was fixed on my machine. Since a few weeks ago the custom right-click menu plugins (a.k.a. shortcut menu plugins) that were installed on my machine stopped working. The menu items would appear in the right-click menus, but when clicking them nothing would happen. The right-click menu plugins were working correctly when I first installed the f1 patch, and later they stopped working. I don't know what triggered this bug to start occurring - perhaps I had installed too many right-click menu plugins, or I had installed one that caused this behaviour to start occurring. Fortunately this bug is also fixed now after the upgrade to f2 and the right-click menu plugins are working again.