NI USB-TC01 not displaying temperature while running on machine at which labview is not installed

[yashoo]

Hi

I had build a program in LAbview 8.2, which takes temperature reading from NI USB-TC 01 thermocouple. the program works fine when i run it on a machine (OS window xp) which already have LAbview installed. the program also shows the temperature reading from NI USB-TC 01.

However the program does not shows the temperature from NI USB-TC 01 when i run the exe of the program on an other machine (Labview is not installed on this machine, however  run time engine 8.2.1 and DAQmx 9.1 is intalled on this machine) and NI USB-TC 01 also installed and shows the temperature on the LAUNCH SCREEN.

The .exe of the program runs without any error, but it does not shows the temperature read from NI USB-TC 01, it only shows 00,00.

So can you please tell me if i need to install something else other than run time engine 8.2.1 and DAQmx 9.1?

Thankyou

[yashoo]

i found the problem.

actually the DEVICE name (USB TC01- DEV7) in the actual program was assigned DEV7, however the other machine assigned the DEVICE NAME to USB TC01 DEV1.... that is why the .exe file on the other machine was not showing the temperature.

however after changing the device name in the other machine, the programs started showing the temperature....

But i think its a bug in the labview, because in this case you have to remember the device names assigned by the machine (at which you are buildling the program), and later when you run the .exe on another machine, then you have to configure the device name in MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION

[Dennis_Knutson]

Not a bug. You could have exported the device configuration, included that in the installer, and that would have been imported into MAX on the second pc.. In LabVIEW, you could have also read the list of devices in MAX with a property node and chosen what is there instead of using a constant in your program.