menu palette file

[Igottabanana]

Hi guys,i created my llb source library and i want to distribute them,putting in userlib folder with the associate mnu file.When i save the palette changes labview modified the dir.mnu(that link to my own mnu file) contains in userlib folder.ok,now i suppose that the user have already his personal palette file mnu under userlib(dir.mnu),how can he do to install my library avoiding to modified her palette ???

[smercurio_fc]

Instead of modifying the dir.mnu file create your own independent menu file so that when you install your library you put your own menu file in the user.lib folder.

[TCPlomp]

This are the general rules for user.lib auto palette creation:

• Everything under user.lib will be placed in an auto created palettes
• except files that are in a folder or llb start with an underscore (_)

So what I normally do:

• save my code in a folder starts with an underscore (_mytool)
• Next to this folder I create an mnu file that contains the relevent VIs that I want to expose via a palette (mytool.mnu), this palette points to the files inside _mytool.
• I copy both elements (folder and palette file) to user.lib, after a palette refresh (or restart of LabVIEW) your items will be included

So my general setup looks like this:

-built

--mytool.mnu

---_mytool

---foo.vi

---bar.vi

Then in an installer I copy everything in built to user.lib

Ton