Quit LabVIEW

[Cory_K]

I have 3 exes, all built from LabVIEW VI's.

2 of them run for a long duration, but for one of the exes, when it is called, it just needs to run once, then it can close.

I am calling it from the command prompt, through a batch file:

eg. start path/program.exe

If I put a 'Quit LabVIEW' function at the end of the code, will it just close this exe, or all of them?

Or is there a better way to accomplish this task?

[F._Schubert]

Darren has published a nugget on shuting down the app using FP.Close.

Felix

[Mark_Yedinak]

From my experinece the Quit LabVIEW will only affect the application that contains it. So if you have a built application it will only exit that one application. If you use it in the development environment LabVIEW itself will shutdown.

[Broken_Arrow · Accepted solution]

It'll just quit the one.

I use this at the end of code quite a lot, and I pragmatically determine to use Quit or not depending if it is an EXE or Dev mode.

[Broken_Arrow]

The spell check changed "programmatically" to "pragmatically"! I guess they are both correct.

[JÞB]

Quit App instance is NOT the same as Quit LabVIEW.  Honestly, I do not know the (specifics of) difference--- Smerc, Darren, or Ben might though.  Need a LV Champ to follow through on the sepcs.

[Cory_K]

I just made a few small test exe's just to check.

As stated above:
- if they are all exe's, 'quit LabVIEW' will only exit the exe in which that function was called

- if they are all open VI's, 'quit LabVIEW' will close the whole environment, closing all open VI's

So in my case, I can get away with using quit LabVIEW.

[AnalogKid2DigitalMan]

Cory:

Sorry I'm late to the party, your tests are indeed correct. I have a PC on the floor that has two LabVIEW exe's on it. When they quit one application the other one still keeps running.

-AK2DM