One of the most irritating quirks of LabView occurs intermittently during the build (startup or debug) code. During the build a window will pop up asking if we want to save this or that VI even though we haven’t touched that particular one. Today we experienced a build where we kept having to click to save somewhere in the neighborhood of 20-30 VI’s. That was ridiculous. This has been happening to us for the past few years. Anybody know what triggers that behavior?
It seems to be an artifact of when it first copies all the files over into the new project.
I usually hit the Save All button on the project explorer window as soon as it comes up and that seems to avoid the problem.
When surprised with Saving a bunch you can click the box on the Save popup for Apply same action and just hit Save once.
We’ll try that approach in the future.
Unfortunately, the RT loader does a poor job of consolidating the items that need to save and showing you a single dialog. This seems to happen most often when you first start to use VIs and they either had a version change or a perhaps the code was once Intel and is now ARM. As Mark said, the best workaround is to do a Save All.
Sorry for the odd behavior.
Greg McKaskle
Thanks for the info. I told the team programmers to do that from now on. Especially after starting new versions from copies of the previous version.
I love LabView but sometimes it leaves me wanting to bury my head in my hands. 