Moving errors directory

[majoris]

Is there an easy way for different installations of LabView to view the same error file if they are using a particular project? Seems like every time I update the custom error definitions in /labview/user.lib/errors, I'll have to copy that change to all the other computers that can run the project. That seems kinda lame. I wish errors had a path that depended on the project path and not the labview path.

- Chris

[NAKeel · Accepted solution]

Hi Chris,

You might want to try using a custom error handler instead of custom error files.  You can package this as a VI.  That  way your custom messages get stored in the project instead of the vi.lib.  Take a look at the bottom of the attached Developer Zone document:

Custom Error Handling In LabVIEW

http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/3209

Nick Keel 

Applications Engineering 

National Instruments

[majoris]

True. I suppose I got tunnel vision, wanting that file to be the way I distribute the errors.

Clearly, I could just make a function that loads an error file that I have in the project directory, parses it and then applies the errors. Honestly, that's a more graceful way to do it in the first place.