How to keep stand-alone VIs on internet for open use

[Dr. Kothari]

Hi!,

I wish to keep various stand-alone VIs on internet for open use; which one
should be able to open using Labview-player. Can someone guide me?

Where does one find Labview player? Does it come along with Labview 6.1?

Looking foward to your adivise.

Thanks in advance.

Bye,

--
Dushyant C. Kothari,
dkothari@vsnl.com

[rajat]

Dear Sir,

LabVIEW Player offers a way to create special VIs which can be distributed and run by others using LabVIEW Player. For thisyou would require two things:
1)LabVIEW Player VI Creation Toolkit to create VIs that can be run with LV Player.
2)LabVIEW Player to view these VIs.

LabVIEW VI Creation Toolkit is available at:
ftp://ftp.ni.com/support/labview/player/lvtoolkit.exe

LabVIEW Player id available at:
ftp://ftp.ni.com/support/labview/player/lvplayer.exe

Please note that LV Player is about an 18MB download.

Hope this helps!
Rajat

[rajat]

Dear Sir,

In continuation to my previous reply regarding LV Player, another option is the LabVIEW Runtime Engine, a 14 MB Download, which allows you to run stand-alone VIs built with application builder and to display VIs that are embedded in Web pages.

LabVIEW Runtime Engine is available at:
ftp://ftp.ni.com/support/labview/runtime/windows/6.1/LVRunTimeEng.exe

--Rajat

[Dennis_Knutson]

If I remember correctly from some previous postings, the LabVIEW player creation tool has not been ported yet to 6.1. Instead, you might want to consider the web publishing features of 6.1. Any VI can be made available through a browser (not just built applications). 6.1 comes with a license that permits a single user at a time to view and control a VI. Additional licenses may be purchased from NI. There is considerable help available on the subject. Select Help>Contents>Networking in LabVIEW>Web Server.

[rajat]

Yes, remote front panels is a good idea, however, an ordinary web-browser can only monitor the front panel. To gain front-panel control, the client MUST HAVE LabVIEW, or LabVIEW Runtime Engine installed.

[Dennis_Knutson]

Just like the client has to have the LabVIEW player installed. It all depends on what you want to do with a VI. I can send someone a LabVIEW player enabled VI and as long as the have the player and only limited I/O is required, the VI will run. If I want to make a VI available on the web for everyone, I buy the required licenses and have the client download the run-time engine. Not much different than having a client download Acrobat reader in order to view a pdf file. Also, the web-based VI can make use of all of the hardware that might be on the server such as daq or gpib.