VISA Mac OSX App builder?

[Kurt]

Hi All,

After a bit of a rocky start, we have a pretty nice LabView 7
application on Mac OS X. We are now trying to wrap the application up
so that others can use it without LabView. We got project builder to
work and our application starts up fine. We have a toggle switch for
simulated data versus actually talking to the serial ports via a
keyspan. However, the VISA drop down menu of ports won't work on a
laptop that just has the Mac OS X runtime. I then tried to run the
VisaConfig application, but when i break into the app and run the
actual executable, it gives me an error that it can't open the VISA
library in library/Frameworks/VISA.framework/Versions/A/VISA.

So how do we create an application using the builder that people can
use wi
th serial visa? I saw a windows VISA 3.0 installer on the web
page, but nothing for mac? What am I missing?


Also, we have a problem in that one of our devices holds a serial pin
high that seems to be causing the VI's to print themselves. When we
disable the printing, the next VI up the chain prints itself. Anyone
found a good solution for this other than a custom serial cable? This
device is from the early 80's and is not easy to modify, so we would
like to just alter the VI's somehow to ignore the print even.

Thanks!
-kurt

[Jim_Kring]

Kurt,

You might want to post this to the Info-LabVIEW mailing list. There are some really smart folks on that list that love to answer questions related to GPIB and LabVIEW on the Macintosh 😉

Regards,

-Jim

[Tom_Hawkins]

The Mac OS X VISA 3.0 installer appears to be here. (I found it by searching on "visa runtime installer".)

No idea at all about the printing thing, but why do you say the serial pin state causes the printing? I'm not aware of any mechanism that would cause that, a rogue 'print panel on completion' setting sounds much more likely to me...

Hope this helps,
Tom

[Kurt]

Thanks to those who emailed me the solution. I just didn't see the
mac VISA runtime on the web pages.

http://digital.ni.com/softlib.nsf/webcategories/85256410006C055586256BAC002C51FA?opendocument&node=132070_US

Works great now!

Still wondering about the printing troubles... anyone have a clue on
this one?

-kurt


kurt@etool.com (Kurt) wrote in message news:...
> Hi All,
>
> After a bit of a rocky start, we have a pretty nice LabView 7
> application on Mac OS X. We are now trying to wrap the application up
> so that others can use it without LabView. We got project builder to
> work and our application starts up fine. We have a toggle switch for
> simulated data versus actually talking to the serial ports via a
>
keyspan. However, the VISA drop down menu of ports won't work on a
> laptop that just has the Mac OS X runtime. I then tried to run the
> VisaConfig application, but when i break into the app and run the
> actual executable, it gives me an error that it can't open the VISA
> library in library/Frameworks/VISA.framework/Versions/A/VISA.
>
> So how do we create an application using the builder that people can
> use with serial visa? I saw a windows VISA 3.0 installer on the web
> page, but nothing for mac? What am I missing?
>
>
> Also, we have a problem in that one of our devices holds a serial pin
> high that seems to be causing the VI's to print themselves. When we
> disable the printing, the next VI up the chain prints itself. Anyone
> found a good solution for this other than a custom serial cable? This
> device is from the early 80's and is not easy to modify, so we would
> like to just alter the VI's somehow to ignore the print even.
>
> Thanks!
> -kurt