ComponentWorks Plus Pack with 3d Graph OCX

[Steven Robb]

Hi all,

Does anyone remember the ComponentWorks Plus Pack? The one with the 3D graph control?

Well, we've been using this is our main data acquisition application for a few years now. Recently I was forced to upgrade my PC and while setting up my app dev environment I realised that I no longer had the installer for the PlusPack (called cwpluspk.exe).

No problem, I thought, I'll contact the nice folks at NI. Hah! They appear to by uninterested, and keep saying I should upgrade to MeasurementStudio - something that I cannot do since I have a several-thousand line application depending on ComponentWorks.

So, does anyone out there have a copy of the PlusPack installer that they could email me? I find it odd that I h
ave to be asking this since you'd have thought that NI would be happy to supply this - it was a free add-on!

Thanks,
-Stef

[SachaE]

Hi Stef,
as I said in my e-mail, the cwpluspk.exe is not on our servers anymore since the cwgraph3D and the datasocket components were wrapped up into Measurement Studio.
This was NOT a suggestion to upgrade. Simply the reason it had dissappeared from our servers, and hence the reason I couldn't send it to you.

I searched our servers in the UK, and the servers at our headquarters in Austin (the search took over 5 hours). I checked our CD packs in the office, and asked if our sales force had any old CDs.
Unfortunately I was completely unable to find the requested file.

I hope you understand that I did as much as I possibly could, and did not advise you to upgrade at any point.

It is not technical supports policy to blindly suggest upgrading to the
latest version of anything, since we deal with many companies out there that have to maintain their software for upwards of 15 years.

Hopefully some kind soul out there on the discussion forums will have a backup of the cwpluspk.exe file that they could attach to this thread, and then I can put it onto our servers in case anyone else requires it.

Thankyou

Sacha Emery
National Instruments (UK)

[Steven Robb]

Hi Sacha,

I didn't realise that you'd done a search, you didn't mention that in your email. In light of that I apologise.

However, I still find it odd that a company the size of National Instruments with such an enormous software portfolio does not have an archive of all released software, if only for the legal implications.

As you say, hopefully someone will have retained a copy of the Plus Pack.

You may be able to help in another way though. I still have the .ocx file and have registered it using regsvr32. While this allows me to compile the software I do see a warning window informing me that the software will stop working after 5 minutes. I assume that this is because the PP was not installed properly.

Is there another way to ensure
that the graph component is registered (i.e. licensed) correctly?

[SachaE]

Hi,
I've found it. I'm e-mailing it to you directly - never let it be said we give up!!!! (It appears it was mailed out a long time ago, and I've been trawling our archive)
Hope this is the correct one for you.

Thanks

Sacha Emery
National Instruments (UK)

[Steven Robb]

Hi Sacha,

Great news - I knew you could do it 😉

My question was also answered elsewhere (http://exchange.ni.com/servlet/Redirect?id=11130518)

I assume that I should ignore this answer and wait for your email?

Thanks again,
-Steven

[SachaE]

Hi,
unfortunately, the files were too big to either e-mail or attach to this discussion forum, so they're currently in the post and on their way to you.
I found the evaluation versions which say they register with cw 2.0 install, or there's a 65MB file with the same filename which might be the correct one.
All the files are on the CD for you.
You're welcome to contact Bilal, and see if our guys in Austin can help there too.

Thanks
Sacha.

[Steven Robb]

Top work, Sacha - I apologise most profusely for ever having doubted you!

The CD arrived and the eval components are just what I needed (and they are fully registered since I have a fully registered CW installation).

I don't know what the 67Meg file was - not a Win32 executable apparently!

Anway, I believe the saying is something along the lines of "You da man!"

Thanks, a lot,
-Steven

[SachaE]

No problem - just doing my job!!

Thanks

Sacha.