How to write back to the CMD Line

[LuminaryKnight]

I'm working on a small little .exe that other individuals can use for their automation (Python... other langue than LabVIEW).  Does a quick simple task and that's it.  I was reading here how to pass cmd line arguments into my application.  But how do I pass back out a result?  Like, for this instance, I'm getting a file, I'm changing the file type and possibly the name, and I wish to send back out to the user what the new path/name is.  How does one do that?

[santo_13]

I don't think it is possible to build a CLI application with LabVIEW.

[LuminaryKnight]

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@santo_13 wrote:

I don't think it is possible to build a CLI application with LabVIEW.

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Oh?  So we can feed it arguments, let it do its thing, and then that's it?  Make sure it quits and move on?

[santo_13 · Accepted solution]

Yes, LabVIEW-built applications can only take arguments as input and do not return user data to the caller/command line.

https://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/return-Argument-to-CMD/td-p/3729229

[LuminaryKnight]

Well that stinks.

So new question.  Is there a way to get it to not open the UI?  My app doesn't have a while loop, I've put "Quit LabVIEW" and I made sure "Show Front Panel when Called" is not checked.  But it still opens for a blip of a second.  Would love for it to not do that.

[Mancho00]

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[Mancho00]

I misunderstood. Nevermind

[Yamaeda]

Set the VI window run time position to Minimized also.

[LuminaryKnight]

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@Yamaeda wrote:

Set the VI window run time position to Minimized also.

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That'll work.  Thank you

[LuminaryKnight]

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@Yamaeda wrote:

Set the VI window run time position to Minimized also.

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Scratch that, it's not working. Any thoughts on what I'm doing wrong?