labview6 to labview7.1

[adam_jcm]

Hi and thanks in advance for any replies.

I’ve made an application in labview6 and it has always been running fine. Now I’ve upgraded to labview 7.1 and I need to make a small adjustment. I don’t want to revert to labview 6 whenever I want to modify the program. I thought take my existing application, open it with labview 7 and save it. What I don’t know is if the program will suffer any changes with this operation.
If you have any other solution to migrate applications from labview6 to 7.1 please let me know.

Thanks

Adão Monteiro

[Dr._Imad]

I have converted applications from LabView 6.02 to 7.1 without any problems.
Note that
a) 7.1 does not support win98/ME. So if your target application is win98, do not upgrade the application.
b) If you are using data acquistion, your application needs traditional Nidaq (7.1 and higher) be installed on the target machine, unless you are willing to convert your daq vi's to DaqMx. Note also Nidaq 7.1 and higher does not support some old daq hardware (like PCI-1200). So make sure your daq hardware is still supported.
c) If you were using serial communications, 7.1 uses serial VISA, and your vi's will be converted accordingly. Normmally there should not be a problem with that. You may have to install the VISA runtime engine (it comes with LabView) on the target machine