Remote Panel exe no custom icon

I have a built exe which has remote panels enabled and is working properly, however there are two less than ideal issues I am trying to resolve:
1) The custom icon I have developed for my exe only appears in the titlebar of the server VI but not in the remote panel. The default LabVIEW icon is displayed on the remote panel. I assume this is because the remote machine's OS has not registered the icon of the exe and is using the icon registered to the run-time engine on the remote machine. I would like to know if anyone has found a workaround to getting custom icons to show properly in the remote panel?
2) There seems to be a slight delay in actually loading the front panel of the main VI in the remote browser, or any pop-ups remotely for that matter. You can visually see the LabVIEW toolbar (run, stop, VI icon, etc.) for a split second before the VI shows as running on the remote panel. This occurs when calling a subVI set to open front panel when called. Even if VI Server is used to load a VI and the VI is run well before the front panel is opened there is still a lag on the remote machine that displays the VI before it is running and shows the LabVIEW toolbar briefly. Does anyone know how to improve this? For pop-ups it looks a little awkward (I know pop-ups are probably not recommended for remote panels but my application requires a limited amount of them).
Steffan

Joe_S wrote:
Steffan,
Let's start with the first issue. I have gotten a chance to test out the first problem on my own, creating an executable that runs with remote panels in LabView 2010 and I was not able to reproduce the problem with the custom icon. The icon that I made for the VI shows up on the remote computer. I did not see any CARs relating to this issue. One thing you can try is running your program in the LabView development environment to see if the icon still won't show up on the remote computer. That way you can determine if the issue is within LabView or within the executable. You can also do the same thing to see if you still see the delay in the LabView toolbars.
Hope that helps! Have a great day!
Regards,
Joe S.
Application Engineer
National Instruments
Hi Joe,
Thanks for the reply. For the custom icon, that is created in the build specification for the exe so it can't be run from the development environment to test. Which icon resolutions did you specify? Does your remote test machine only have the run-time engine installed? I tried specifying icons for all resolutions but that did not make a difference. One additional thing to note is that my server machine is running Windows 7 and the remote machine is running XP. Could that be a possible cause?
As far as the toolbars delay, that is present in both development environment and as an exe so that one should be easily reproducible. Let me know if I am missing something here.
Steffan

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4.) From MAX, formatted the disk by right-clicking the controller under
Remote Systems and selecting Format Disk.
5.) After the controller rebooted,
reset my network configuration and name of the controller and hit Apply
(controller rebooted again to apply these settings).
6.) After the
controller rebooted (still in Safe-Mode), I added software to the controller
(FieldPoint 6.0.5 with LabVIEW 2009, controller rebooted again).
7.) After
the controller rebooted, I manually switch the Safe-Mode dipswitch back to off
and then rebooted the controller again from MAX.
8.) Launched LabVIEW 2009
and manually opened the VI (test_vi_851.vi, just the VI, not the project).
9.) I went to File»Save As... and selected the option Copy - create copy on
disk»Substitute copy for original.
10.) I then chose to name this copy
test_vi_2009.vi. Then I closed the VI, which brought me back to the LabVIEW 2009
Getting Started window.
11.) Selected Empty Project and then targetted the
cFP-2220.
12.) Enabled the Web Server by right-clicking the
target»Properties»Web Server»Enable Web Server. Then I deployed this setting to
the controller by right-clicking the target»Deploy.
13.) Returned to MAX and
rebooted the controller.
14.) After the controller rebooted, I manually
added test_vi_2009 by right-clicking the target»Add»File... .
15.) Opened
test_vi_2009 from the project and created a new html file (called mypage.html) using the Web Publishing Tool.
16.) FTPed mypage.html
to the appropriate folder on the controller.
17.) Returned to MAX and
rebooted the controller.
18.) After the controller rebooted, I ran the
test_vi_2009.vi from the project and was able to access the remote front panel
(http:///mypage.html).
Please give these steps a try, and let me know if you run into any further problems.
Nick Keel
Applications Engineering
National Instruments
Nick Keel
Product Manager - NI VeriStand and Model Interface Toolkit
National Instruments

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I have created a LabVIEW application and have tested opening the remote panel when it is running in the full labview development suite - this all works fine. I simply go operate>connect to remote panel and enter the server address, the port (8000) and the vi name using the path "My Project.lvproh/My Computer/main.vi" format.
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Cheers
John
Solved!
Go to Solution.

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The problem I had was that I had left the web server port for the remote panels the same as the LabVIEW development environment. That meant that the main LabVIEW web server was getting in the way of the web server that was associated with my built application.
With the application's web server on a different port and the VI in memory (and the file in a library/directory external to the exe if it is not the top level VI), you just need to specify the VI name such as main.vi .
Solved!

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