Can a Labview instrument driver be converted to a LabWindows Driver???

[TE-Gregg]

I saw that a LabWindows/CVI driver can be converted to Labview, can the opposite be done?

[Travis_M.]

Hello TE-Gregg,

The best way to use your LabVIEW instrument driver in CVI is to compile your LabVIEW code to a dll, and call the dll from CVI. There is no direct conversion function to import a LabVIEW driver to your CVI code. To elaborate slightly, when you create an instrument driver in CVI and bring that to LabVIEW, CVI is actually creating a DLL which is imported by LabVIEW. So the reverse would hold true regarding importing a LabVIEW driver in CVI.

You may want to check out our Instrument Driver network here to see if your particular instrument has a CVI driver already built. The instrument driver network can be found at http://www.ni.com/devzone/idnet/ . If you are unable to find drivers here, you might also want to consider contacting the manufacturer of the device.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Travis M
Applications Engineer
National Instruments

[TE-Gregg]

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@TE-Gregg wrote:
I saw that a LabWindows/CVI driver can be converted to Labview, can the opposite be done?

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Travis,

Thanks for the reply. I've checked the Inst. Driver network and the driver I wanted was created in Labview. I can create my own, but I didn't want to reinvent the wheel. I will try your suggestion first.

Gregg

[CVI 7.0 User]

The following link discusses Labview and CVI interoperability with
instrument drivers:

http://zone.ni.com/devzone/conceptd.nsf/webmain/55FE4BB06CD115BA86256CAF005EF71C