VIPM creation

[Yamaeda]

Hi,

So i'm creating a VIPM for the first time, and when installing it, an Untitled.vi pops up. How to avoid that?

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[Michael_78]

Hi, when you build a package there is a tab which allows you to choose a vi to execute during the install. Have a look and see if you inadvertantly selected this option. I build packages frequently and i have not seen this before so that is just the first thing that comes to mind.

[Hooovahh · Accepted solution]

I believe this is just one of those things that has to happen some times for VIPM to work properly.  I read about it somewhere but can't find the link at the moment.  It creates a new VI, but you can obviously close it when VIPM is done doing what it was doing.

EDIT:  Oh I guess it wasn't that hard to find.

http://forums.jki.net/topic/1622-new-untitled-vi-on-some-package-installations/

https://support.jki.net/hc/en-us/articles/214135763-An-untitled-VI-opens-when-installing-a-VI-Packag...

[Yamaeda]

Yes, it can be closed, the main issue here is that it looks rather bad and i pop up a dialog which gets hidden behind this VI. 😕

Thanks @Hoovahh

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[Hooovahh]

I'm sure you've probably found it, but there are several examples of forcing a VI to be on top of all other VIs, or all other Windows.  If you are running a Pre-install VI or something that prompts the user you might want to look into some of those functions to force it on top.  I can see why opening an Untitled VI might be annoying in this case.

[Yamaeda]

you would think a modal one button dialog would be in front. 🙂

[Hooovahh]

In front of all LabVIEW windows yes (when LabVIEW is active), but likely not in front of all windows opened.  For that you'll need some User32 or .Net magic.  I think there are examples on LAVA and NI.