Packaging Xcontrols for reuse

[falkpl]

I have fianlly started to meke some nice Xcontrols which I want to reuse and package for use on external applications.  I want to protect my IP as well.  Is there any method of packaging an Xcontrol to appear as just another control in the controls palette?  Essentially I want to make more controls with custom behaviors/properties for distribution.

Paul

[TCPlomp]

Yes you can.

Distribute it as an LLB with the XControl as top-level. If you drop the llb inside your user.lib it will show up there.
Lock your facade VI (with password?), this will remove the 'Open block diagram' option
Remove the block diagrams of all VI.

Make good documentation (maybe a right-click-> help)


Ton

[falkpl]

Thanks I will give this a try.  Is there any other options than llb, I stoped using llbs in the past since I had a couple get corrupted on me.  I have used simple folders since.  Are the project libraries a feasable solution, I have not had a chance to use them yet.

Paul

[TCPlomp]

You could store all your source files in a _source folder (any name starting with an '_' will do) except for your xctl file.

However using LLB's for distributing code is super, since you don't edit/save the llb's I have hardly seen problems with this structure.

Ton