Remote Panel without Plugins / HTML 5 / JS / Websockets support

[eaAT]

Hello Guys,

as we are transforming our Testing Application deployed as Executables to something more "state-of-the-art", I found the Remote Panels solution could suite our needs.

Remote Panels are a nice solution, but they rely on LabView RTE and Browser Plugin on the Client Machine. I don't think this is state-of-the-art, since the Web Technologies Wars have are over and Plugins lost the Fight.

I found some similar ideas in the Idea exchange, but none of them hit the point directly. So heres my Proposal:

Replace the reliance on LabView RTE and Browser Plugin with a HTML 5,JavaScript and Websockets solution, that runs on any modern Webbrowser!

This would bring the following Advantages:

- support for any client operating system (even IOS, Android, etc. possible)

- seamless support for Remote Panels in modern browsers (neither Chrome, Firefox, IE will support NPAPI in the future)

- take advantage of all the PROS of modern web technology (e.g. responsive UI to support Touch UI targets)

- since no Plugin is needed, Clients will have no Security concerns (remember Adobe Flash concerns at Apple)

- no need for any NI customer to build an own HTML5 remote panel solution to bridge this obvious gap of Labview Functionality.

I know there are solutions for Windows Remote Control like VNC, but this does not offer a target UI adjustment for the application. So for example a Ipad Target will not change its UI to be Touch-friendly for the User.

I hope you support the Idea! Best regards and thanks for the Attention, Philipp

[crossrulz]

LabVIEW NGX 2.0 (at one time due out later this year) is supposed to have Web VIs, which are based on HTML 5.  You can get a little more information in the following links:

Compare LabVIEW NXG and LabVIEW 2017

LabVIEW NXG Product Roadmap

NI Software Technology Preview

[autotesting]

Thanks for that piece of information @crossrulz.

But as far as I see, we cannot migrate our code to NXG currently. I also understood, that LabView and NXG will run parallel for the moment, so my request is on the LabView development side.

[AristosQueue (NI)]

This feature is included in LabVIEW NXG. There will be no such work done for the current platform. LabVIEW NXG was specifically created to be a new platform where we can handle requests like these which were virtually impossible with the existing code base.

[Darren]

This feature is included in LabVIEW NXG. There will be no such work done for the current platform. LabVIEW NXG was specifically created to be a new platform where we can handle requests like these which were virtually impossible with the existing code base.