Programmably get progress of an EXE loading

[DarkLordOfG]

Hello - we are building large EXE's in LabVIEW.  Is there a way to monitor the load progress when the EXE is launched so we can put a progress bar?  The applications take a long time to get going and our users don't know if it is working without some visual feedback.

John

[Tejinder_G.]

Unfortunately, there doesn't appear to be any direct way to do this with application builder.  I will certainly create a product suggestion because I agree that this would be a good feature to have. 

As far as a workaround, you may be required to build a wrapper around your executable that will launch a progress bar and dynamically call your main application.  Of course the runtime engine and all the dependencies need to loaded first before you can actually launch a progress bar. 

I would suggest taking a look at the following example, you can run this while your main app is loading: http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/epd/p/id/1232

Hope this helps!