GOOP Suite: questions before starting to use

[kosist90]

Dear NI/GDS Community,

I'm just starting with GOOP Suite, and let me, please, ask you couple questions, on which I haven't found answer yet...

1. While installing GOOP from VIPM, it recompiles all VIs, from vi.lib\addons folder. It takes a tramendeous amount of time... Why it is needed, and what will be the consequences, please, if I'll discard this recompile (I understand, that it is needed for GOOP VIs, but I don't understand, why it is needed for other VIs).

2. Help files are not opened. I can find htm files on harddrive and open them, but via normal open, it is written, that file is not found. I thought, that they are blocked b/c downloaded from internet (what sometimes happens with chtm files), but no...

3. Are there some video tutorials of how and when to use this toolkit? B/c those links from LAVA forum, what were placed here also, are not valid anymore; and on youtube there is no video of how to use it exactly.

Thanks a lot in advance,

sincerely, kosist90.

[MikaelH]

1. To get around to re-compile problem, why not try the OpenGDS version, it’s the same code (plus some bug fixes and some extra features).
   It produces exactly the same code/classes/methods, but the advantage is that there is a pre-compiled version for all LV versions.
   Download it from: http://opengds.github.io/
2. If you install the OpenGDS version the help files are located here: \LabVIEW XXXX\resource\Framework\Providers\Open_GDS\HelpFiles
3. The videos could be found here: https://forums.ni.com/t5/GDS-Goop-Development-Suite/Videos/m-p/3390729#90310

[kosist90]

Great, thank you very much!

[wiebe@CARYA]

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wrote:
why not try the OpenGDS version

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Because the first thing you read on the OpenGDS page is a recommendation to open NI's version:

" I recommend you to use NI’s version to start with: https://www.ni.com/en/support/downloads/tools-network/download.goop-development-suite.html "

It is a bit confusing...