No, I don't know where to find MDSplus VIs compatible with 8.6. We use 8.5.1 and have gone though at least one version upgrade with these VIs working in both. I don't recall having to do anything special to get them working after the last upgrade. I am surprised that these VIs are not compatible. Is the problem in the dll calls, or somewhere else in the routines?
I have not tried upgrading these VIs to version 8.6, so I can only speculate that you may need to do something like recompile the dlls.
Have you downloaded the MDSPlus software? There is a LabVIEW library there and this is where you should find the routines that you mentioned being missing.The link is:
Yes, I have downloaded the updated version of MDSPlus. How to recompile the dlls? Those vi files were not in mdsplus/labview directory. Is there any way for transforming old vi files to new vi files?
Hmmm, don't know why those files would not be in the mdsplus/labview directory. We recently installed on a linux machine and they were there. Apparently we can only attach 3 files at a time on this forum and there are 21 files in the labview directory. If you are willing to post your email here (which I am not necessarliy advising) I will email you all of the files that I have.
I have another problem. I can write integer number into Mdsplus, but have problems when I tried to write string into Mdsplus. I think there are something wrong in the set up of the call library function 'descr'. I am actually not sure what is the rule of setting up those parameters: dtype, descr1, endarg and the length of the string in the function 'descr' for string type. I attached my VI. Could you please take a look and let me know where I am wrong? Thank you so much!
We also had some problems reading and writing strings. I've attached our solution. This vi reads or writes a comment depending on how an input flag is set. Try this and let me know if it works.
Thank you, Greg. Looks like you first convert a string to byte integer, then write that byte integer to Mdsplus. But for me I want to directly write a string to Mdsplus so that the string can also show up in traverser. I found out another solution and attach the VI here. It seems to work so far. You can also try it and let me know if you find any problem.
