Shell VIs and Quick drop in LV2017

[MountainClimber]

Hello,

I developped a set of useful VIs (including some shell VIs) for my projets

Those VIs are distributed with vipm, to be reachable in a LabVIEW palette

I generally dropped those shell VIs in my LV projets by finding them with the quick drop window

I tried to do this in LV2017, but there is an issue with shell VIs and quick drop :

- When I drop a shell VI from the palette, I get the content of the shell VI in my VI [OK]

- When I drop the same shell VI with the quick drop, I get the containing VI in my VI [FAIL]

This behavior removes the interest of using shell VI in LV2017...

Is this an issue of LV2017, or am I missing something ?

Thanks for you replies !

[.imb]

Hi SaphirMountainClimber,

I've just tested it in LV 2017 and 2018 and it worked fine for me both in the palette and as a quick drop. I did not use VIPM though, I just saved the VI in user.lib.

I used those the steps in this tutorial to do it (with the exception of the Merge VI option which is now called Place VI Contents):

http://www.ni.com/tutorial/6523/en/

Are the steps the same with VIPM ?

Thomas

[MountainClimber]

Thanks for your reply Thomas,

From what I remember, the steps are very similar with VIPM.

I'll have a look to see if something is wrong on my side (but there should not...)

[.imb]

If you want to compare with another shell VI, I also tested with STM templates as it is available on the VIPM.