05-16-2025 02:24 PM
I'm trying to programmatically work with gifs. I've read about the OpenG tools that advertise the ability to do this, and I believe I've installed some version of it, but I haven't managed to find anything that looks like something I would add to the programming pallet and despite NI Package manager telling me that it is install, none of the searches I do from within LabVIEW find anything that appears to be related to it. Does someone have an example of using OpenG to extract the images from a gif? There are a few posts that mention that this can be done, but none that I've found actually include any code.
05-16-2025 04:15 PM
Can you explain how this relates to Labwindows/CVI (since you posted here!).
In can move your post if needed.
05-19-2025 03:31 AM
First, yes you posted in the wrong forum.
The files you show in your screenshot are support libraries for VIPM (VI Package Manager) itself that it uses when it connects to different versions of LabVIEW to install stuff.
NI Package Manager only installs VIPM. To install OpenG libraries you have to run VIPM which will let you select from a myriad of packages to install. For your specific use case one of these three may be helpful.
And if you ask why two package managers you should ask NI. VIPM existed long before NI thought about doing something similar. And they ended up doing something that smells similar (using the word package manager) but works substantially different and is very much tailored to distributing their own software.
05-19-2025 09:13 PM
Shortly after I started learning/using LabVIEW, I learned about VIPM (the VI Package Manager) that provides access to (what is now called) the LabVIEW Tools Network, and the system of very nice utilities created and managed by OpenG. VIPM is included with every LabVIEW distribution, and is part of the default LabVIEW installation (though you can leave it out, if you want to).
If you have VIPM installed, and have TCP/IP "turned on" for your LabVIEW installation, you can open (and run) the free version of VIPM, confgure it for your version of LabVIEW, then open it, go find the OpenG packages, and run the OpenG package by selecting "OpenG Toolkit", which installs the most useful set of OpenG tools.
Bob Schor