component works to measurement studio 8 upgrade

[yorkie]

Ooops Sorry - I seem to have upset someone in the Digital I/O forum, so I'll post it here instead :^)

We are currently working on an old program which uses Components Works - ideally we would like to simply buy Component Works as this would mean no work for us at all, but, looking through this site it seems we may need to upgrade to Measurement Studio 8.

In particular we are using the following controls...

CWSTAT, CWARRAY, CWAOPOINT, CWDAQTOOLS, CWAIPOINT and CWAI

Do we need Enterprise or Pro version of Measurement Studio 8 - or something else entirely?

Many thanks...

Alan

[hannahW]

Hi Alan

Firstly I need to double check what version of Visual Studio you want to use this with? I am going to assume Visual Studio 6 so if this is not the case, then please let me know, and I'll look into this again for you.

If you want to upgrade to from ComponentWorks to Measurement Studio, so that you are able to use the tools you specified below in Visual Studio 6, then you will need to purchase either the Professional or the Enterprise version of Measurement Studio 8, as these will include the support for Visual Studio 6.

Which one you choose will depend on the functions you require from the ActiveX controls you have listed below, as some, but not all functionality of these is supported in the Professional version. All the functionality you had should be supported in the Enterprise edition. Please take a look at the link below which gives a comparison for which functions are included in Enterprise or Professional - This will apply to the CWSTAT and CWARRAY controls

http://www.ni.com/analysis/cwtools_analysis.htm

As for CWAOPOINT, CWDAQTOOLS, CWAIPOINT and CWAI, these all relate to the Traditional DAQ driver rather than Measurement Studio, so will be installed once you have installed the Traditional DAQ driver.

I hope this helps, please let me know if you have further questions, or are unsure of anything I've posted here.

Regards

Hannah

NIUK & Ireland

[yorkie]

Thanks Hannah

Yes, it's VB6 and...

The functions we use for CWArray are..

.IndexArray (obviously)

.MaxMinId

The functions we use for CWSTAT are...

.Mean

.StdDev

.LinFit

I've downloaded Measurement Studio 8 and recompiled and sent the app. for testing - but I'd like a definitive answer, hopefully it's the cheaper option :^)

Thanks again

Alan

[hannahW]

Hi Alan,

Sorry for taking a while to get back to you. Its taken a little while to find the software and getting a system set up with the components from the Professional edition of Measurement Studio.

I've tested an application using the functions you listed, and all of them work except for the CWStat.LinFit function.

So if you need this functionality then you'll need to go for the Enterprise Edition.

If there are any other functions you want me to test for then let me know and I'll look into it for you.

Regards

Hannah
NIUK & Ireland