mozilla

[Emiliano]

I am using LabVIEW to publish a Front Panel over the Internet, and am
interested in viewing it with my Mozilla Web browser. When I navigate
to the Web page with my Remote Panel, I only see a window with an icon
saying, "Get the plugin." I follow the link, which takes me to the
installation page for the LabVIEW Run-Time Engine (RTE), but I already
have the RTE installed. Downloading and reinstalling the RTE doesn't
fix anything. What is wrong?

I tried what I found on the National Instruments web site...:

Solution: Since the Mozilla Web browser was released after LabVIEW
6.1, the LabVIEW 6.1 installer does not search for the browser when it
runs. Therefore the plugin will not be installed directly by the RTE
installation. Since the Mozilla browser uses the same p
lugin as
Netscape, you can simply copy the Netscape plugin, nplvwin32.dll, to
the ...\Mozilla\Plugins\ directory. If you do that, then restart your
Mozilla browser, you will be able to view the LabVIEW Front Panel.

....but is still not working!

May you help me, please?

Thanks

[Feroz]

Hi Emiliano,
Please try doing the following, it may help. I know of once instance where this worked.

In the html file generated, remove the codebase property as below:

Change:
OBJECT ID="LabVIEWControl" CLASSID="CLSID:A40B0AD4-B50E-4E58-8A1D-8544233807AA" WIDTH=588 HEIGHT=475 CODEBASE="ftp://ftp.ni.com/support/labview/runtime/windows/6.1/LVRunTimeEng.exe"

To:
OBJECT ID="LabVIEWControl" CLASSID="CLSID:A40B0AD4-B50E-4E58-8A1D-8544233807AA" WIDTH=588 HEIGHT=475

Please also make sure that you have Mozilla 0.9.x or later.

I hope this helps.

Sincerely,
Feroz

[Emiliano]

Hi!

No...unfortunetly is still not working...

In this way with Internet explorer is not working too...


Thanks,

Emiliano

FerozP wrote in message news:<50650000000500000049930100-1079395200000@exchange.ni.com>...
> Hi Emiliano,
> Please try doing the following, it may help. I know of once instance
> where this worked.
>
> In the html file generated, remove the codebase property as below:
>
> Change:
> OBJECT ID="LabVIEWControl"
> CLASSID="CLSID:A40B0AD4-B50E-4E58-8A1D-8544233807AA" WIDTH=588
> HEIGHT=475
> CODEBASE="ftp://ftp.ni.com/support/labview/runtime/windows/6.1/LVRunTimeEng.exe"
>
> To:
> OBJECT ID="LabVIEWControl"
> CLASSID="CLSID:A40B0AD4-B50E-4E58-8A1D-8544233807AA" WIDTH=588
> HEIGHT=475
>
> Please also make sure that you
have Mozilla 0.9.x or later.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Sincerely,
> Feroz

[SVences]

Hello Emiliano -

What version of LabVIEW and what Platform are you using?

Refer to the LabVIEW Release Notes for the version of LabVIEW you are using for the required version of Mozilla. Also, if you installed Mozilla in the default location, the LabVIEW installer automatically installs the browser plug-in. Otherwise, to manually install the LabVIEW plug-in, install the LabVIEW Run-Time Engine, then copy /usr/local/lib/labview/lvnplugin.so to the plug-in directory.

SVences
Applications Engineer
National Instruments

[John Lum]

Emiliano,

I had similar problems with Mozilla, but I was able to get past them here (Mozilla 1.7, LabVIEW 7.0).

I think most Mozilla/remote panel problems (assuming you've got a fairly recent version of Mozilla) are probably caused by the run-time installer not placing the proper DLL in the Mozilla plugins directory.

For me, the fix was simple, because I also have Netscape installed, and the plugin worked there. What I did is copy the file NPLV7Win32.dll from my Netscape plugins directory ("Program Files\Netscape\Netscape\plugins" on my machine) to my Mozilla plugins directory ("Program Files\mozilla.org\Mozilla\plugins"). Problem solved the next time I reloaded my panel page in Mozilla.

Perhaps the NI support folks will check this out
and update some of the support documentation that have at their disposal. It would be a shame for Mozilla users to miss out on Remote Panel just because the run-time installer doesn't completely support Mozilla at the moment.

Regards,
John

[John Lum]

Boy, I'm not reading very well these days.

So, Emiliano, I guess you tried this exact thing to no avail--what version of Mozilla are you on? And you're certain that the version of the LabVIEW run-time DLL you copied into the Mozilla plugins directory matched the LabVIEW version of the VI in question?

At least this is one positive data point about the manual-copy fix.

--John