Bug: Disappearing TAB in standalone app

[X.]

So far I have been at a loss to narrow down this bug to a small example VI so here it is in general terms, in hope that somebody will have a solution to it.

I have an app with a large number of subVIs which I develop on a WinXP machine (LV 2012 latest patch). The main VI has a tab control with ten tabs in it (plus one hidden one). I have no trouble releasing it as a source distribution on a Win7 64 bit machine (running LV 2012 64 bits). Things work fine.

When I try to release it as a standalone app, the tab control disappears on the exact same machine where it works fine as a distributed source! Obviously it now installs as a 32 bits application, since I developed it on a WinXP machine...

If I release the same code on another WinXP machine (in fact a MBP laptop running WinXP from within Parallels Desktop), I have no trouble either...

Where did my tabs go on the Win7 machine?

I tried and checked whether a simple one-VI app with a tab on the FP would show the same problem, but that appears not to be the case... Nasty bug!

[Norbert_B]

X,

do you use the same build script for the application on all machines?

What if you create a new build script on the Windows 7 64bit machine?

Norbert

[X.]

I am using two different built scripts since the two outcomes are different, but the actual source files, etc are identical in both, so in this sense they are similar...

I haven't tried to create the executable on the target machine itself yet, but that won't in any case be exactly similar, since I have LV 64 bits installed on it.

[Norbert_B]

I was interested in this because i thought it could be a corrupt setting in the build script itself.

The tab control is on the top-level VI or is it on some subVI maybe in a subpanel control?

Norbert

[X.]

Top Level VI. The FP consists of a large Tab Control and in the built app, I can only see the content of one page. Obviously quite annoying 🙂

[Darin.K]

Does changing the style of the tab help or not?

[X.]

What do you suggest? I use the Modern style Tab (wished there was a Silver one!) and paint it with "System Color". Do you mean using a "System"or "Classic" Tab instead? I can try that, but only if you justify it with some insider info...

[X.]

Changing tab style has no effect (fails just as bad in a standalone app).

Morevoer, I have been able to verify that the tab also disappear on a Windows 7 32 bits system. In summary:

Standalone Windows XP (32 bits): tab OK

Standalone Windows 7 32 bits: tabs disappear

Standalone Windows 7 64 bits: tabs disappear

[X.]

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@Norbert_B wrote:

X,

do you use the same build script for the application on all machines?

What if you create a new build script on the Windows 7 64bit machine?

Norbert

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I finally got around to create a build script on the target 64 bit machine.

The released application DOESN'T SHOW the tab either!

It looks like my tab doesn't want to show on ANY Windows 7-released app, but shows up fine as a VI run from within LabVIEW...

[X.]

I am attaching a stripped down version of my app.

The archive contains:

- a folder within which you'll find the project containing the top VI and the build script I am using

- a folder containing the necessary VIs/ctl (mostly the latter as I removed most of the innards)

- the application folder with the executable

If you run the VI from within the project, it shows a FP consisting of a Tab with multiple pages. You can browse the pages if you wish. Nothing is functional, so that's basically just a template.

If you now quit LV and run the app itself, you'll see a FP devoid of any page beside the first one. Where did the other pages go?

I tested this on my Win7 64 bit machine.