The Palm OS module compiler gives an unknown error.

[aeteran]

I have just installed LV7.1 with the PDA module. I have followed the getting started instructions and have found the following problems:

1. I am unable to upload the ROM image for the emulator. The computer and the PDA simply do not comunicate.

2. When I try to build an application, after a few seconds of apparently good behaviour I get an error saying that I have got an unknown error and I should contact NI.

3. In addition, I have LV7.0 installed in my computer, and I did installed the PDA module, however I never activate it. I have now uninstalled it.

[SVences]

Hello �

What OS is your Palm running?
Palm OS emulators, like the one that that ships with LabVIEW, do not support ROM images from OS 5 or greater. You will not be able to load a ROM onto any emulator that contains OS 5.x or beyond.

If you have a PDA with Palm OS 5, you can still test your LabVIEW applications before downloading them to your device. To do this you must use the Palm OS 5 Simulator, available for download from Palm's website, linked below. Note that once you install the simulator, you must still install the DatalogMgr.prc and Mathlib.prc (as prescribed in the release notes) for your LabVIEW applications to run.

Palm OS Simulator

Hope this helps!

S Vences
Applications Engineer
N
ational Instruments

[aeteran]

Thanks

Yes I do understand this. I have uninstalled the PDA module and reinstall it again and now it does work. However I am still having some problems.

1. I am working with two PDAs, a M515 and Tungsten C,therefore different OS(v. 4.01 and v. 5.2.1).

2. I have begun doing some of the examples. From the ones I have tried most of them seem to work fine except for the graphing calculator. I get an error saying that the code is too big.

3. I cannot use the download command from Labview. It asks me to perform a hotsync, and when I do it nothing happens.

4. The LabView conduit is giving me problems. If I use the Labview conduit to install a program in any of the PDAs, the program appears in the info list of the PDA, however there is no icon. Also
the program image in my hardrive shows the file as if it has 0K size after the hotsync.

5. If I use the normal installation conduit, the program does download and install correctly and the file image in the hardrive shows its normal file size. However, each time I run the program in the PDA it begins looking for a host: "Waiting for host". I press the cancel button and everything works. There is no advise about this strange behaviour in the release notes.

I hope you can help.

Regards

Alberto

[SVences]

Hello Alberto �

>>I cannot use the download command from LabVIEW. It asks me to perform a hot sync, and when I do it nothing happens.

You have to set the run arrow action to build, download and execute the application. Go to Tools >> Options and select Run Button Action For PDA Targets from the pull down menu. Make sure you have the Build Application and Download Application boxes checked and the Launch Application option selected.
If you don�t have these options selected, you have to do each step manually and that is why LabVIEW asks you to do a Hot sync.

Also, keep in mind that the size of the applications you can build is limited by the memory on your Palm.

Hope this helps!

S Vences
AE National Instruments