Save For Previos... menu is greyed out for project style instrument driver in Labview 8.0.

[Shui]

I have a project style instrument driver in Labview 8.0. I want to save it for previous version 7.1. However Save For Previos... menu is greyed out. Any ideas why?

[Dennis_Knutson]

LabVIEW 7.1 does not have projects so it wouldn't make any sense to have the save for previous option. Do a source distribution and save it as an llb.

[Shui]

Thank you for your replay.

I just did so. I created an llb file, which contains lvlib in it. I opened llb file and File-> Save For Previos was disabled still.

So , my next questions would be:

1. how to create llb file with just VIs from the driver?

2. why is Save For Previous is still disabled?

Sorry if my questions are too simle, I am not familiar with 7th Labview at all.

[Dennis_Knutson]

What I just did was in the build specification, was to select the public and private as source files (but not the lvlib) and the destination as an llb. You would probably want to do the same thing with any examples. It also seemed to export the .mnu files. You could then use the LLB manager to set whatever VIs you want (i.e. examples. VI Tree) as top level.

[Shui]

How to select just public and Private folders?

in the dialog in Source File Settings I see expanded My Computer, I can not add or remove from the list. 

Thank you.

[Dennis_Knutson]

Your project should look similar to the drivers that NI writes. If it doesn't you might need to do a bit of reorganization.

[Shui]

My dialog looks different:

there are only tree categories: Distribution/Source Settings and Preview.

In the Source settings, there are no lists for choosing individual files. 😞

I will try to post  the image.

Message Edited by Shui on 05-07-2008 12:51 PM

Message Edited by Shui on 05-07-2008 12:51 PM

[Shui]

BTW my driver is NI certified,

it is http://sine.ni.com/apps/utf8/niid_web_display.download_page?p_id_guid=38C476B9AF805F24E04400144F1EF8...

may be we have different version of Labview.

[Dennis_Knutson]

We are using different versions of LabVIEW and I don't have 8.0 to play around with. Someone with 8.0 may suggest a better method of exporting a vilib to an llb or to a folder with individual files.

In your image, you do have public and private being shown. Can you select one or both of them?

[Shui]

I can select either, but it does nothing to the File selection. What is the Labview version are you using?

I can upgrade up to 8.2.

Thank you again.