CVI settings

[RobertoBozzolo]

Hi all, we are updating internal network in my office creating a new dominion, so my PC user needs to be migrated on the new dominion; since it will actually become a new user, I would like not to loose al settings and customizations I have made to the CVI IDEs (more versions, currently from 6.0 up to 8.5) installed in my development machine and my laptop. With "settings" I am referring to:

- UIR editor preferences

- environment settings

- global include paths

- library  menu custom elements

- syntax coloring and editor colors

- build settings

- what else I am forgetting??? 

I'm not interested in toolbar and font options since I am currently using the standard settings, but reassigning all other elements would be a long and boring task  I would like to shorten as much as possible.

I have currently found only this tip by Mohan about colors in the source editor, and keyboard shortcuts can be saved and reloaded with native functions, but what about other settings?

[nickb · Accepted solution]

Hey Roberto - 

In CVI 2009 there is a tool for importing and exporting your settings.  If you do not have CVI 2009 on your development machine, but do have it available somewhere and can install the 2009 CVI RTE on your development machine, you can run the tool stand alone by copying the files <National Instruments>/shared/cvi/bin/ImpExpSettings.exe and <National Instruments>/shared/cvi/bin/CVISettings.xml to your desktop or some other known location.  

Once the tool is running, just pick the version you want to copy the settings from, which settings you want to export, and a file location where the settings should be saved.  You can then use the tool to import these settings back into your versions of CVI from the files you have created. 

If you are unable to run the tool on your development machine, the easiest thing is most likely going to be for you to snoop around in  HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\National Instruments\CVI\<version> until you find the settings you want, and then import and export these keys.  Be aware that if things like MRU paths don't match from one machine to the other, you may get errors in CVI.

Let me know if you have any questions,

NickB

National Instruments 

[RobertoBozzolo]

Hi Nick, thanks for your response. I will investigate both options.

My problem is not the machine being changed but the user which I am logged into which is moved from one dominion to the newer one, so no problem for file locations and so on.

I saw in version 8.5 the environment has waken up as it were freshly installed (grid visible in the UIR editor, no include paths and so on), so I suppose some per-user settings have been generated from scratch on the new user. I will try your suggestions to see if I am able to restore old environment in the new user.

[ebalci]

Hello Roberto,

May this thread be of help?

[RobertoBozzolo]

Hello all, thank for the responses!

I resolved going the registry way: since I'm working on a single machine, exporting the registry for the old user and reimporting on the new one seemed the easiest road to follow: it has worked perfectly  in a few seconds I was able to resore the full working environment!

Didn't know who to mark as the solutor as both of you offered the solution I actually used: I resolved for nick's answer which is more complete and can be of help for persons who don't like or can't dig in the registry.

[ebalci]

Ah, here I lose my only chance to be the solutor of a "Roberto's problem" 😉

[RobertoBozzolo]