Instrument I/O assistant in runtime engine

[DanB83]

Hello,

I currently use the Instrument I/O assistant in some of my VIs to communicate with an Agilent network analyser using SCPI commands.  This works fine, and I am able to do everything I want to do (on my desktop which has LabVIEW installed).

I would like to be able to run my VIs on a laptop which does not have LabVIEW installed, using the free runtime engine.  I have successfully been able to do this with several VIs that do not contain the Instrument I/O assistant.

However, I can't get any VIs that contain the assistant to work on the laptop.  I have verified that the connection between the laptop and the network analyser is OK in MAX, and all the device numbering and addressing is the same on the laptop as it is on the desktop.  I have even been able to get individual blocks such as "GPIB Write" to work on the laptop.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Dan

[Dennis_Knutson]

Did you include the NI-VISA run-time when you created the installer? The assistant is based on VISA.

[DanB83]

Er, no don't think so.  How would I do that?

You say when I "created the installer"?  What do you mean?  When I built the executable it just outputed an .exe file, an .ini file and an .aliases file.

[Dennis_Knutson]

What version of LabVIEW are you using? For quite a while, you have had the option of creating an installer. This is the recomended way to distribute an exe. Prior to 8.x, you could include the LabVIEW run-time. Since 8.x, you have had the option of creating an installer that included hardware drivers such as GPIB, DAQmx, NI-VISA, etc. You could also download the VISA run-time. The full version of VISA should also be included on the CD you got with the GPIB board. Some of the GPIB CDs did not automatically install VISA but you can always stick the CD in and manually select it for installation.