Application Directory in RTEXE

[IlluminatedG]

My RTEXE builds are having Application Directory return a path WITHIN the rtexe instead of the folder containing the rtexe (presumably it's not recognizing being built into an app and is instead returning the folder containing the top-level VI?)

Has anyone else seen this? Is this somehow expected behavior?

[IlluminatedG]

I am resorting to this to get my expected behavior:

[Gregory]

I don't have experience with real-time, but I ran into a similar problem when I used LabVIEW to build a DLL. I wanted to use "Application Directory" to get a path to the DLL, but it gave the path to whatever had loaded the DLL (could be python.exe for example). I ended up using "VI Path" and stripping the path to the DLL location.

All this to say, I think continuing with your work around is the best thing to do.

[IlluminatedG]

I should say that this has changed behavior across builds. Used to work fine.

Your DLL usage is entirely expected; it says it will point that the path of the executable... not DLL.

[cordm]

I have an rtexe developed in LabVIEW 2021 where I am using a very similar workaround to get the application folder. 2020 behaved the same if I remember correctly. Not that I expect this behaviour, but it seems to be consistent, at least.