Labview Linux!!

[Bichillo]

Hello everybody,

I need to develop an application in LabVIEW 7 and it should be able to launch the LabVIEW programming interface, work with it and finally create another application using the Application Builder. For example, the application could have some buttons:

1) Launch LabVIEW
2) Save VI
3) Open VI
4) Compile VI and generate exe file
...

We are working in Linux (Debian-KDE).

How can we start? Vi server maybe?

Thanks!

[Jim_Kring]

Here is a command-line build tool that I created. It has a lot of useful features that overlap with what you are trying to do.

http://www.openg.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=LVBLD%20-%20Command%20Line%20Build%20Tool

good luck,

-Jim Kring

[Jorge M.]

Hello Graci,

another idea I would take a look at is to use a "general purpose" executable, that makes use of Dynamic VI calling. With this approach, your exe would be fixed (you never recompile it), but it calls dynamically the vis you tell it to (and those are the ones you modify/update). Have you seen the VI Server Plug-in example? That's a good example of a plug-in architecture that may solve your needs.
Regards,

JorgeM.