What's the difference between the 2 activex server interface types

Question

Hi,
i have a problem with a LabView ActiveX-Server i wrote. This is a little test application with 2 ActiveX-Servers and a VC++ Application. The first server opens the serial resource and sends it as variant to VC. VC sends the variant then back to the second server where i want to communicate with a serial device. When i access the second server through the LabView.Application interface everything is fine. But when i'm trying to access the exe directly with [VI-Name].vi (i think this is called run interface) i get an error that my resource for the serial interface is not correct.
Want is the difference between the two interface types and how can i solve the problem?
Thanks

Answer 1

The path of a main VI changes after it is compiled into executable. For example, the original VI is at
c:\temp\test\main.vi,
after building it into executable (say the executable directory is exe), the path to main.vi then changes to
c:\temp\test\exe\main.exe\main.vi
Sometimes in order to correctly reference some relative information, the "main.exe" need to be removed from the path. If you are accessing main.vi at development time, then the correct path should be the longer one during runtime.
-Joe