Labview Full Dev. License, does it cover multiple platforms?

[cayenne]

Hello, I have labview 2011 full developer edition at home, running on Win7. I may have reason to believe that computer has some hardware malfunctions that are impeding my progress on a vi I'm working on, and deadlines are looming. Labview runs on OSX and Linux I've seen....so, wondering, do you have to purchase LV specifically for each OS...or does a purchase allow you to run on one (or maybe even two) different computers on different OSes? I've got a mac and a linux box I'd like to install and try the VI out on...and if it works, move all code over and continue developing on that computer and not use the Win7 box...till problems can be remediated on it..... Thanks in advance, cayenne

[johnsold]

The licenses are specific to the platform.

Cross platform build capability gets discussed from time to time but has never been implemented.

Lynn

[cayenne]

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@johnsold wrote:

The licenses are specific to the platform.

Cross platform build capability gets discussed from time to time but has never been implemented.

Lynn

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Hmm...that kinda blows. So, if you want to switch from Win7 to OSX....you'd have to buy a new license.?

I wonder how much trouble it would be..to get the NI usb->serial RS232 working with a mac, running Labview on a Win7 VM on parallels or VMWare...?

Anyone tried such a thing before?

[johnsold]

I have an EasySync USB to RS-232 device running on the Mac with LV but have not tried running under emulation.  I do not have a Windows LV license so I could not try it anyway.

Several years ago I had LV running on a Mac laptop using Bootcamp and XP.  I do not recall using any hardware devices with that system.

Lynn

[cayenne]

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@johnsold wrote:

I have an EasySync USB to RS-232 device running on the Mac with LV but have not tried running under emulation.  I do not have a Windows LV license so I could not try it anyway.

Several years ago I had LV running on a Mac laptop using Bootcamp and XP.  I do not recall using any hardware devices with that system.

Lynn

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Just as an update...I've gotten Labview 2011, running on WIn7 on VMWare 4, on OSX 10.7.4...

I've connected my NI rs232 cable with loopback...and amazingly enough...it all seems to be running.

Strangely, pretty much the same problems I'm seeing on true Win7 on other computer are there...clicking any windows (MS)...causes values to somehow fluctuate on the serial cable....

I need to run LV natively on OSX, to rule this behavior out as being something flaky with my version of Win7.

I'll see if there is an eval copy of LV on OSX to try it with...if the licensing won't allow me to go between operating systems....

Thanx,

cayenne

[Ben]

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@cayenne wrote:

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I've connected my NI rs232 cable with loopback...and amazingly enough...it all seems to be running.

Strangely, pretty much the same problems I'm seeing on true Win7 on other computer are there...clicking any windows (MS)...causes values to somehow fluctuate on the serial cable....

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cayenne

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If that is the hardware issue that has driven you to explore using LV on other platforms... STOP!

That symptom is generally associated with abuse of the UI Thread (it is single threaded).

Please show us your code.

Ben

[johnsold]

My guess is that the hardware is OK.  If it works at all, and you said it works part of the time, then the harware is probably OK.  Since it seems to occur on both a native W7 machine and under emulation, it may be something in the OS USB driver or as Ben said in your code.

Lynn