Password Protection: Controls, etc

Hi everyone, I was just wondering if anyone had any ideas regarding password protection of controls.
More specifically I am interested in "protecting" these values while the VI is NOT running.
I have developed one or two methods to do this, but both require excessive controls, event cases, etc.
So basically I was just wondering if someone has a simple method of "protecting" a value of a control from being edited while the VI is not running (aka the previous "run" value is loaded at next start etc)
Any input would be great
Thanks,
Ryan
Ryan
LV 7.1

The second scenerio - leaving the VI open but not running.
When I create an .exe file, the user has an "EXIT" option. If they choose the exit option, the VI remains open but not running. They can then change any front panel values, and then restart the application. This kind of circumvents my password protection.
The way I did it was made 2 sets of controls, one visible on the front panel, and one not visible. the program operates off of the hidden controls. when a visible control is changed, the user is prompted for a password. to fix teh above mentioned case, i load the hidden values to the visible controls at the start of the program.
I was just curious if anyone else had tried to fix this issue...a file to reload the values would probably work well too i would think, however then someone could just edit the text or excel file right?Message Edited by esa_paranoid on 05-26-2005 12:51 PM
Ryan
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