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shb

Provide executable to open a VI with a matching LabVIEW version

Status: Declined

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Today it is not possible to open a VI in a matching LabVIEW version by double click. With slightly adapting the LabVIEW.exe's and adding some new LVxxx.exe executables this would be possible (and even more). (See also this Thread)

 

../National Instruments/LabVIEW xx/LabVIEW.exe               opens the VI with LabVIEW Version XX

../National Instruments/shared/LabVIEW/LVmatching.exe     opens VI with best matching Version (requested or next newer)

../National Instruments/shared/LabVIEW/LVcurrent.exe        opens VI with last started LabVIEW Version (current behavior of all LabVIEW.exe)

../National Instruments/shared/LabVIEW/LVnewest.exe        opens VI with newest installed LabVIEW Version

 

All Executables should do something sensible when executed with no argument. (Matching maybe an error message.)

 

../National Instruments/LabVIEW merge/LVmerge.exe and ../National Instruments/LabVIEW compare/LVCompare.exe can be called with one of executables which provides better integration in Source Control. Some short arguments [8.6|9|matching|current|..] could be defined.

 

Greetings,

shb

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altenbach
Knight of NI
Darren
Proven Zealot
Status changed to: Declined

Any idea that has received less than 4 kudos within 4 years after posting will be automatically declined.

SteveE
Member

There is a third party tool that does open .vi and .lvproj with the correct version, it can be fount here:

https://www.digiajay.com/2017/11/26/open-labview-files-in-correct-labview-version/ (I think the sites security certificate may have expired)

And available in GITHub here:

https://github.com/digiajay/OpenInLabVIEWFileVersion

 

Steve Eggo CLD