We are using just the Base system. That seems to explain most of it. The comparison chart is very useful; thanks for that link. It raises a couple more questions though:
- There are VIs listed in the LV Help pages that don't seem to exist in the LV Base package. As a concrete example, searching through the Index, I find Sine Wave. The entry explicitly states that Sine Wave is not in the Base Package. The next entry is Sine Waveform. There is no note explaining that Sine Waveform is not in the Base Package. Incidentally, my original query came about because I could not find the Sine Waveform VI that I need to run the Function Generator (under Activity/Solutions).
- There are a couple of things I can find that the Comparison Chart tell
s me I shouldn't have. The two I can think of are the "Linear Algebra and Array Operations" and "Publish HTML Documents" (both under Analysis Tools). I can find menus for both Linear Algebra and Array Operations, and I did generate an HTML document a couple of days ago. I'm not aware that we're using any extensions that would allow me that. It's possible that the capabilities of these functions are simply scaled back in the Basic Package.
My larger bewilderment is the first point above. It seems odd that the Help pages would explicitly point out that one option doesn't exist in this package, but neglect another option. And it seems odder still that the tutorial included in this package would include an activity that requires an option that doesn't exist in the package (at the very least without pointing that out).
It's conceivable to me that this is a simple oversight. Can anyone confirm this? Is it possible that it's not an oversight, and these options are buried somew
here in the menus?
Thanks for the help altenbach.
--colin
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