Is "1easyIO.llb" a National instuments LLB?

[tbob]

Ohhh, he works for the government.  That explains it all, including his frustration....  I used to work for a major company's Federal Systems Division.  What a major pain, didn't matter who, what , or where.  It was always something....

[Tom_W_[DE]]

HI vr6Fidelity-

Dennis' suggestion to simply install Traditional NI-DAQ (Legacy) should solve your problems.  To update his link, version 7.4.1 (the version required for LabVIEW 8.0) is available here.  The device drivers are not installed automatically with LabVIEW because if they did then the installation footprint on every machine would be huge and it would take 10 CDs for the LabVIEW installation and most users wouldn't be too happy about that.

We appreciate the help from all of our loyal external volunteers on the forums, and at least one person from NI reads and answers (if necessary) all support questions posted to the forums.  Are there any other threads/questions I can help with?  It seems in the past that you have always gotten answers to your questions on the forums, but if there was a lapse I would like to help out. 

Thanks-

Message Edited by Tom W [DE] on 02-22-2006 08:51 AM

[Vr6Fidelity]

Thanks Tom W. Whoever you are. I do like the forums, fast answers that are way better than NI on the phone.

Question: Could somebody point me to a VI that contains only LV8 vi's that reads signals from a daq card, writes the data to an excel spreadsheet with headers, and displays it on the front panel as a multiple trace chart or graph?

[Vr6Fidelity]

To Dennis: The link you provided me is broken.

You are here:  NI Home > Support > Drivers and Updates     Error The Drivers and Updates entry that you requested is currently unavailable. Please look for a similar entry in the All Versions view , or contact National Instruments Technical Support for assistance. HTTP Web Server: Lotus Notes Exception - Entry not found in index

[Darren]

Try taking the period off the end of the link.

-D

[Dennis_Knutson]

Go to Help>Find Examples. Expand the Hardware Input and Output>DAQmx>Analog Measurements>Voltage topic and you'll find a lot of examples for data acquisition. As far as writing to Excel, it depends on what exactly you mean. If you want to create a native Excel file, then look at the shipping example called Write Table to Excel. This uses ActiveX to create the Excel table. There have also been hundreds (at least) of posts on how to write to Excel in this forum. A quick search will turn up numerous examples. If instead of using ActiveX, you want to create a text file with tab/comma separated data, you can use Write to Spreadsheet File, Write LabVIEW Measurement File, etc. There are shipping examples on logging data and file I/O that you can look at.

You may not find a single VI that does everything you want. That's why they call it programming.

[Tom_W_[DE]]

Hi Vr6-

To expand on Dennis' response, you have options of examples in LabVIEW once you install the appropriate driver (either Traditional (Legacy) NI-DAQ or NI-DAQmx).  Since it seems you are more familiar or have at least used Traditional NI-DAQ in the past you might want to check the example "Cont Acq to Spreadsheet File.vi" under Hardware Input and Output>>Traditional DAQ>>Analog Input>>Stream to Disk. 

A similar example for NI-DAQmx exists under Hardware Input and Output>>DAQmx>>Analog Measurements>>Voltage>>Cont Acq&Graph Voltage-To File(Binary).vi.  I remember from your previous posts that you aren't familiar with working with binary files, but if you want to look at this example and the method to decode the binary file (Graph Acquired Binary Data.vi from the same directory) it may be a good starting point to update your application to NI-DAQmx.  Both of these examples are found in the NI Example Finder under Help>>Find Examples.

Hopefully this helps-

[Ben]

This note is probably a day late and a dollar short but here goes...

If the previous version of the code was saved with

Save with Options >>> Application Distribution

and the default settings of including the stuff in VI.llb then this would explain why LV8 can not find the new stuff.

Ben

[Vr6Fidelity]

Well th installer will not initilize on the drivers disk, or the LV8 installation CD. The little bar fills up all the way and then nothing happens it justs sits there for hours.

I thired to download it but it estimated over 2 hours.

Sigh.

[Ben]

"The little bar fills up all the way and then nothing happens it justs sits there for hours. "

Yes Sir!

That is what it does for me as well. I just sat back and let it cook. Eventually it did something. Yes, I agree that sucks!

Trying to help,

Ben