Can you import or convert a LabView file to LabWindows/CVI

[DCNYC]

Can you import or convert a LabView file to LabWindows/CVI?

[Dennis_Knutson]

You can create a DLL from a LabVIEW VI and call it in CVI or you can control a LabVIEW program via ActiveX in CVI but you cannot create a text based version of a LabVIEW VI.

[imanon]

Dennis, what do you know about the new LabView Embedded product?  In a seminar I took recently, the instructor (from NI) said that the LabView Embedded product could in fact convert a LabView application over to standard C code (which then could be imported into LabWindows/CVI).  I'm not sure I understood him correctly, but that is the implication I got.  Can you or any of the other forum veterans substantiate this info?  Any more information on this would be much appreciated, thanks! 

[Dennis_Knutson]

I don't know much about LabVIEW embedded except what I just read and saw on the product page. It does say that will create C code. It also says that it costs $11,000 for a single license. That seems a pretty high price to pay for just the conversion to C code.

[Bob_Y.]

You also have a limited pallet of subVI/primitives to choose from when you are working with embedded.  Many of the file IO VIs, for example are not available on an embedded platform so they are not available for development.  I don't think that they would be correctly converted to C-code.

If you limit yourself to the VIs available in the embedded package, it should work.  And yes, $11,000 is quite a step.

All in all, I think that you would be better off calling LabVIEW built .DLLs

Good luck,
Bob Young