state of exe front panel

[littlesphaeroid]

Hello everyone,

I am calling a LV Runtime executable by path using the System Exec VI. If the call to start this VI happens when teh executable is already running, I would like it to come to the front. How can I do this?

I thought of the posisbility of setting a shared variable to alert the exe, or finding a way to detect/set the front panel state of the executable, which seems the best way. But I'm not sure how.

Thoughts?

[KateB]

1. Use task manager to see whether there are two programs running, https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-25652.

2. Bring another Windows to front, https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-4551

3. Stop current exe.

[camerond]

I'm not exactly sure where got the syntax for this, but it does check for what you need and tells you so. (You'll have to change a couple of minor things if you're not running a mass spectrometer.)

Cameron