acquisition 8.6 liscence work with 8.51 Executable?

[falkpl]

I have developed an executable with vision and acquisition in Labview and vision add-on 8.51.  I have purchased a liscence to run this on a seperate machine as an exe.  The liscence is 8.6, will this be a conflict?

[Chris_VH]

Hey Paul,

I'm not QUITE sure what you are asking, but I'll do my best to help out.

When creating an exe with Vision Acquisition Software (VAS) and Vision Development Module (VDM) you will need both the Vision Run-Time Engine (VRTE for the VDM part) and VAS (obviously for the VAS)

Now, your VAS is just a bunch of drivers, and those just have to be compatible. You can check versions of IMAQ and LabVIEW compatibility here.

As far as the VDM and the VRTE: those HAVE to be the same version. It is just like LabVIEW and the LabVIEW RTE. If you code in LabVIEW 8.5, you have to have the 8.5 RTE. Same thing goes for VDM. If you program with Vision VIs from 8.6, you MUST have the 8.6 VRTE.

Hope this clears up any confusion!

[falkpl]

So to distribute my application developed and build with Labview 8.51, ImaqDX3.2 and Vision Module 8.5(1?) I should install the Vision Acq Liscence and Vision Runtime 8.51 (Should be on my developers suite) and this then use the 2 liscences I Just purchased that came with the 8.6.  I hope the liscences are not version specific since 8.51 liscences are not sold anymore.

[Chris_VH]

Paul,

While you cannot still "purchase" older versions of the Run Time, the current license will activate any older versions. Here is a link to the downloads:

Like I said, you HAVE to have the same version of Vision Development Module that you coded in. The Vision Acq license for 8.6 will be fine though.

[falkpl]

All worked, I just unrigistered my development liscence and used the client's newly purchased liscences and all seemed to work but I did see I problem with My vision development module still on the machine in a deactivated form and then registering thr runtime liscence the code didnot work.  I was not ready to remove vision development module until I ship the PC.  It appears that the runtime engine is second to the vision development module when looking for liscences?

[A_Person]

Hi Paul:

You can think of it that way.  Since the runtime is include with Vision Development Module, you won't have the runtime activated separately.