How can gloal vairables can be shared in subvi?

I have a question about global variables. no found answer in Forum.
i want to share some global variables in different subvi: Starting first subvi from main,
and set variables,then in second vi, use these variables.
In my test, if i run it from labview , everything is ok. If build an exe file, the first subvi
cannot be exited. If exit, the value of global variabels are cleared. I don't know why?
Can i use like this? please help me.
Thanks.
attached my main app. For subvi exit, just call FP.Close.
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The way I underrstand the problem:
There is a main VI (main.vi) which successively runs two different VIs via a VI reference.
Let's call them A.vi and B.vi. Both access the same global variable.
The main VI does not know about the global variable.
First A is runs, then quits. Later B runs and is expected to access the global variable with data left by A earlier. I have not explored this, but I guess that once A quits, the global variable also leaves memory, forgetting everything
My suggestion was to place an instance of the global variable in the main VI, forcing it to remain in memory as long as the main VI is running. Apparenlty, this solves the problem.
mmm2006 wrote:
Should i update global variable in main vi? There are many setting and I don't want to display them.
I would guess it will be sufficient to place the global variable in the main VI to keep it in memory. There is no need to read it or display it's content. Another solution might be to specify the global variable as "startup VI"? I have not tried this.
These are just speculations, because I virtually never use globals so my experience is limited. I probably would have A.vi write the data to a file which B.vi later can access, for example.
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