Can i prevend the generation of files in temp directory

Question

I noticed, that a labview (7.0) application generates different files in the temp directory when executed and deleting them when stoped.
(Except of the *cur.txt and *log.txt files which only exists once per application)
Is there a way to prevend LabView to write this files (lvtl*.rsc; lvtr*.rsc; *.tmp)
I've got an application, which i have to kill (there's no other way at this moment).
If i do so, the files still exist. I kill this application about once a minute.
Because i don't end the application the regular way, the mentioned files still exist.
As a result the temp directory runs full.
Suggestions are appreciated.
Best regards,
Rainer
P.S.: The Suggestion to regular stop the application does not help me of course ;-)

Answer 1

Rainer,
Nice question!
There are different ways for doing this. Unfortunately no any "100% guaranteed" way (because its not documented by NI - which temporary files are created by LV app):
So, first suggestion with deletion of all temporary files seems to be safety, because normally Temp directory must be empty. In case if some files currently used by other applications, they locked and you cannot delete them.
Second way - change path to temp directory especially for your application. Just add tmpdir key into assotiated ini file:
[app]
tmpdir=C:\MyApp\Temp
After that lvtl*.rsc; lvtr*.rsc will be created into this directory. You can safety delete these files after kill.
(Note, that "*" is pid of your application)
Third way - looking for all handles, which currently opened by your application. You can do this with some utilities, for example with Handle.exe from SysInternals.
For example for my simple application following output was generated (some not important lines are skipped):
Handle v2.2
App.exe pid: 656
cc: File C:\Temp\App_7.0_Administrator_cur.txt
144: File C:\Programme\National Instruments\Shared\LabVIEW Run-Time\7.0\lvapp.rsc
148: File C:\MyApp\App.exe
1f0: File C:\Temp\nix2E5.tmp
210: File C:\MyApp\Temp\lvtr656.rsc
214: File C:\MyApp\Temp\lvtl656.rsc
760: File C:\MyApp
Now you can parse output and looking for all currently opened temporary files, then kill your your application and then safety delete tmp and rsc files. Note, that files lvtl*.rsc and lvtr*.rsc are located in "local" temporary directory as described in ini file, but nix*.tmp still in "default" directory.
Hope it help a little bit...
Andre.