"problem installing LabVIEW Interface Generator"

[trl2]

Noel,

Yes, I am running "drivertolv.exe". I downloaded it several times to make sure I had the right one. It has the little NI logo next to it, and as I described, when it runs it first puts up a dialog that has the title "Labview interface driver for LabWindows/CVI Instrument drivers 1.0", so I know I got the right one. That dialog shows briefly before the MDSPlus installer kicks in.

When I read the documentation, there is a little note at the end that you are using stuff from Apache, so it did not seem impossible that you would somehow be drawing on MDSPlus, which is another 'free' package. As it turns out, since you confirm that MDSPlus is not suppsed to run, I figured that maybe your installer is somehow picking up something it should't. So I copied the installer from my downloads directory to my root directory and re-ran it, and THAT WORKED. The new tool installed, the menus under labview are updated, the new wizard appears under add/remove programs, and the tool actually worked.

I tried to be as explicit as possible in describing exactly what I was seeing...

Thanks for your help.

[Noel]

Thanks for reporting back.  I'm glad you were finally able to install the correct tool. 

As far as source of the problem.   This seems to be an issue with the self-extracting archive mechanism.   We have changed the way we create the self-extracting archive since the version you used.  

The driver you used creates a temporary dir in %temp%, extracts the installer to it, and runs setup.exe from that directory.  Something sounds like it is going wrong, and the unzip tool is doing all that, but running exe from the wrong directory. However, our more recent version of the tool extracts files to a dedicated NI directory - so this likely shouldn't happen any longer.

Thanks,

Noel Adorno