First off: I searched and didn't find anything adequate.
Ok, I'm not sure which step along the way caused the error, so I'm just going to describe everything that's happened. We've been using LabVIEW 7.1 with cFP modules for a while now. We are going to upgrade to LabVIEW 8.0. Rather than upgrading on our regular computer and hoping everything runs swimmingly, we've brought in another computer with LabVIEW 8.0 already on it to see how things will go.
After transferring the program, state definitions and .iak files, I tried to take it for a spin. The first thing I noticed is that FP is not supported by LabVIEW 8.0 right out of the box. After digging around on here, I learn of the need to upgrade to FP 5.0. So I do this. The program is still not working right. I open MAX and attempt to establish communication with the cFP modules. We find that we have to assign it different network settings, since IT gave the computer we brought in a different subnet than the one that was already in here (we are manually setting the network settings on the module because we have not yet asked IT to assign it some with DHCP).
We finally get a setting that works right in MAX. I am able to use MAX to change outputs on the cFP and get the expected results. In LabVIEW, it took some time, but I finally got it to assign just the proper cfp.iak file. The problem is that I still can't communicate with FP in LabVIEW. When I run my old program, it just literally does nothing. In my old program, all the FP express VIs are version 4 types, as opposed to the version 5 types that I can place now. I don't know if this is a factor or not. So I make a quick program just using some buttons to control some DOs with FP 5 express VIs. I get the following error:
"Error 33162 occurred at FP Write.vi"
I get this whether I use express VIs or use regular FP Write VIs. I am puzzled, because I can communicate with FP in MAX, but not in LabVIEW, even though they seem to be using the same configuration file.
Any advice or input would be grealty appreciated (I hope I didn't include too
much detail.
Thanks
