Writing LabVIEW programs international OS

[John Rich]

I have written a LabVIEW executable (including the run-time engine in the installer) which operates on US versions of Windows from Windows 95 to Windows 2000 (I didn't test it on XP). I need to operate this program on a machine which is running an Italian version of Windows. What problems may occur which will limit the operability of the program in the Italian OS? Note that displaying everything in English is OK.

Thanks

[Alberto]

Hi John,
at first sight you should not have any problem.
One thing I recall is that in Italy the default localized decimal separator is "," instead of "."; keep this in mind if you convert numbers to strings and make comparisons or search for matches with decimal separator included.
Anyway, I'm italian and I use italian versions of Windows; if you have any doubt, tell me more about your application and I'll try to figure out which problems you might have.
Alberto

[John Rich]

My program reads string data from several files, reformats it and writes a single text file output. The reformatting does require extracting some numbers, doing some processing,and then inserting them back into a string, but the numbers are all integers and should therefore not have the "," instead of "." problem that you mentioned.

The files that are read are on a floppy disk and are, by default, assumed to be on the A: drive.

Thanks for your input.

John

[Alberto]

Hi again John,
you won't have any problem. No spaghetti output from string conversions, though!

Good luck,
Alberto