keyboard entry numerical control application builder

[Trolls]

This is a very simple "settings" question but I can's seem to find the answer myself so I thought I would just ask.  I have an application that uses numerical controls (to set the time interval between scans for one).  Everything works great on systems with LV installed.  However, when made into an application using Application Builder and running it on a system that only has the LV runtime engine on it, manual keyboard entry of values into the controls no longer functions.  The incremental controls work but is awfully inconvenient if the user wants to change from a scan once per second to once every thirty seconds--those 29 clicks get tiring.  Soooo....what setting needs to be set before building the application that will allow keyboard entry (i.e highlight and type) of values to be possible once the VI is an executable.

Sorry this is so simple...but be kind to one who is new at making stand-alone executables.

Thanks!!

[JeanPierre]

That is supposed to work. The problem must be elsewhere. Sorry for the obvious but is numlock enable? *ducks*

[Chris_Cilino]

Hi Tom,

I just built a simple exe in which a numeric control controls a numeric indicator. I was able to increment and decrement with the arrows and use number keys. However, I had to make sure that the control had key focus. Without key focus, nothing worked. And as was suggested, make sure you have num lock on.

[Trolls]

Thanks for your help.  Sorry to be so long in responding but our the day after I submitted my question our client had the machine in question removed for an update by the Information Services guys for an upgrade from W2k to XP.  The machine just came back today and I reinstalled LV runtime and the application and the keypad entry works perfectly.  So I'm afraid that the true nature of the my origninal difficulty will never be known.  I appreciate your suggestion on the NUM LOCK key as I was 10 or 15 minutes into my own troubleshooting before I thought to check it myself, so I just as easily might have forgotten to check it--so no ducking is required (it should have been the first thing I checked).

I do appreciate the time taken to respond.  Have a great day!