Is there a way to convert 7.1 code to 6.1?

[Bill2@NGC]

I have some code I would like to port over to an older PC running LabView 6.1.  Is there an easy way to convert my 7.1 code to 6.1?  Thanks.

[unclebump]

Possibly, but you need 7.0 also. You can save for previous version, but there could be items in the new version that aren't available in the old version.

[Bill2@NGC]

Losing a few items is better than having to reenter everything.  So are you saying I may be able to go from 7.1 to 7.0 to 6.1?

[unclebump]

Saving for a Previous Version

You can save VIs for a previous version of LabVIEW to make upgrading LabVIEW convenient and to help you maintain the VIs in two versions of LabVIEW when necessary. If you upgrade to a new version of LabVIEW, you can go back to the last version of the VIs.

Complete the following steps to save a hierarchy of VIs for a previous version of LabVIEW.

1. For the top-level VI in a hierarchy of VIs, select File»Save with Options to display the Save with Options dialog box.
2. Select Save for Previous to save the VI hierarchy for the previous version.

   Note  When you save a VI hierarchy that uses a LabVIEW toolkit that has provided LabVIEW with a list of version information, you can select which version of the toolkit to save the VI hierarchy for in the Toolkit Version field.

3. Click the Save button to display the Choose a Directory dialog box.
4. Select the directory where you want to save the VI hierarchy.
5. Click the Save button.

If a VI uses functionality that is not available in the previous version, LabVIEW saves as much as it can and produces a report of what it could not convert. The report appears immediately in the Warnings dialog box.

Note  You cannot save any VIs in vi.lib for a previous version of LabVIEW, so those VIs appear in the Warnings dialog box.

Click the Save button to save the warnings to a text file you can review later or click the OK button to acknowledge these warnings and close the dialog box.

You also can use the Save For Previous method to save a VI for a previous version of LabVIEW programmatically.

[daveTW]

Yes, you can go only one version-step backwards, 7.1->7.0->6.1->6i...
The patches like 7.1.1 don't affect this system, fortunately.
Greets, Dave

P.S. Oh unclebump, you where faster...

Message Edited by daveTW on 06-16-2006 01:27 AM

[Bill2@NGC]

Thanks.  I'll go look 7.0.