windows popping up

[dyrrell]

In the teststand application I am running, varrious applications are being launched, seemingly at the end of a large data aquisition process.

Sometimes it's MS outlook, Windows Mwdia Player, File Explorer, Internet Explorer, and sometimes it's a LabView Popup (the one you get when you press the exit button on a sub VI... "quitting will stop all other running VI's".

The problem is intermittent, but occurs enough to give me concern.

Nowhere in my application do I launch any external programs.

We thought it may have been low memory or a virus, but those proved to not be the problem.

Has anyone else seen this with LabView?... (ver 7.1 / win XP) 1GB RAM.

[MikeS81]

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dyrrell wrote:

...and sometimes it's a LabView Popup (the one you get when you press the exit button on a sub VI... "quitting will stop all other running VI's". ...

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Hi dyrrell,

you will get this window, if you quit your application, but there are some running vi´s in memory. Maybe you get an error while starting one of the other applications

 and so you can´t close them correct.

Hope it helps.

Mike

[smercurio_fc]

Does this happen only when you run TestStand? Does it happen when you run any TestStand sequence, like the shipping examples? Is your code broken up so you can create a sequence composed of pieces of code so you can narrow down when it starts happening? Does this happen on another computer? When did this start happening? Are you using any sort of ActiveX in your code?

[dyrrell]

Thanks Mike...

That is only one of the various anomilies that occur.  Any window that is opened can be manually closed.  But I want to find the root cause of them popping up.  It is vary inconsistant which leads me to think it's an OS error.  I'm taking steps to try a different computer.

Also note that recently on this same computer, the DAQ card (NI-6281) is often times (maybe one out of 3 times) not recognized at boot-up.  I really think its a bad OS load.

But if you or anyone else thinks I should look into something else as the root cause, let me know.

[dyrrell]

Thanks smercurio_fc...

It happens so randomly that I really don't think it's the VI (Labview is preaty consistant when it comes to generating errors).

No, I haven't tried braking up the execution with breakpoints yet.

There is no ActiveX VI's or blocks involved.

I'm going to try a different computer when I get the OK from my boss... gotta 'borrow' one from another location.

I'll keep everybody up to date as (and if) I find out more.