Conversion of LabVIEW 5.1 code to 8.5

[Frieder]

Thanks a lot Dennis!

It works!
I will look over it more precise tomorrow!

Have a nice day!

[rjiao1978]

Hi, Mike, thanks for your help but i think I will bother you again. Now, the version of LabView in my lab is 7.1 so would you please help me to convert the program to ones I can open in Version 7.1.
Thanks a lot.
ROng

[MikeS81]

Hi Rong,
i can only convert this part for you.
Hope it helps.

It seems like they are equal and the same as last time. Could it be?

Mike

Message Edited by MikeS81 on 06-19-2008 06:53 PM

[rjiao1978]

Hollo, sorry to bother you! I have a big problem with our DAQ programs and my situation is as followings:

Our lab bought a new NI-6251 DAQ card which can only use the NI-DAQmx drivers but our old
programs (those I asked Mike help me to convert from LabVIEW 5.7) arecorresponding to the tranditional NI-DAQ driver
so now I can open these old programs in LabVIEW 8.5, but I still can not find the new DAQ card in these programs and
can not gain any data. Would you please give me some commons and do I have to program the codes by myself?
Thanks a lot!
Rong

[Captain_Kirby]

Hi Rong,

Unfortunately, because the device is only supported by DAQmx. You will not be able to use your Traditional DAQ VIs or driver to operate the card. If you wish to reuse the code which currently employs Traditional DAQ, you will have to encorporate DAQmx VIs instead of Traditional DAQ.

[rjiao1978]

Hollo, Mike, sorry to bother you! I have a big problem with our DAQ programs and my situation is as followings:

Our lab bought a new NI-6251 DAQ card which can only use the NI-DAQmx drivers but our old
programs (those I asked you help me to convert from LabVIEW 5.7) are corresponding to the tranditional NI-DAQ driver
so now I can open these old programs in LabVIEW 8.5, but I still can not find the new DAQ card in these programs and
can not gain any data. Would you please give me some commons and do I have to program the codes by myself?

Also, I got a solution which is recommoned by installing the Traditional NI-DAQ Compatibility Vis, do you think it's useful.
But unfortunately, this Traditional NI-DAQ Compatibility Vis is only useful for the LabVIEW version 7.1, so do you think
I need to install LabVIEW 7.1.?

Thanks a lot!
Rong

[rjiao1978]

thanks for rely!
Is there possible to install the Traditional NI-DAQ Compatibility Vis to make our old programs written by Ni-DAQ still useful with the new card only driven by NI-DAQmx?
thanks!

[Captain_Kirby]

Hi Rong,

The Compatibility VIs were written for LabVIEW 7.x and the Traditional DAQ driver version 7.2. The VIs themselves shouldn't have any problem opening in the later versions of LabVIEW, but I have never actually tried these VIs personally, nor know how they will operate with other versions of the driver. I would caution you against it because the VIs actually replace part of the Traditional DAQ library in order to decide weather a device should be accessed with the actual Traditional DAQ driver, or if the shell VIs around DAQmx should be used.

And also, keep in mind that Traditional DAQ is a legacy driver at this point. We will no longer develop it, and so it would be benificial for your future re-use of this code to go ahead and convert the Traditional DAQ VIs into DAQmx VIs. In the long run, this will probably be the best solution.

[pdr_esmolbra]

Hello there.

I am also having problems trying to open labview 5.1.1 files in LabView 8.5.
I would really appreciate if somebody could transform the following attachments to readable files in LabView 8.5 Professional

On that note, is the file converter available online somewhere? is it free??

Thanks very much


-Pedro A. Molina
Kingston, ON, Canada


Attachements:  A library containing 22 VIs and another VI:  Total 23 thanks!!

[Dennis_Knutson]

Here you are.

The 'file converter' is any version of LabVIEW prior to 8.5 and older versions are not available on-line.

Message Edited by Dennis Knutson on 06-27-2008 07:54 PM