Get property value compatibililty issue

[Teemu from Finland]

VI:s greated on TestStand 1.0, using "get property value" fuctions does not work with TestStand version 3.5.

How can I use old, well known VI:s, using these problem causing functions?

Can I somehow use 1.0 and 3.5 get property values parallelly?

I have these VI:s something like 50pcs, so I do not want to update all of those manually.

-Teemu

Message Edited by Teemu from Finland on 09-19-2007 03:11 AM

[SachaE]

Hi,

  can you post a simple TS 1.0 sequence we can work against?

Thanks

Sacha Emery
ATE Systems Engineer

National Instruments UK and Ireland

[James_Grey]

As a hint to our support staff, I have a vague and ancient recollection of a LabVIEW issue where you needed to upgrade your VI versions by mass compiling before opening the VIs after you installed an upgrade of TestStand that crossed a certain version boundary.

I think the versions to check the release notes and readme's for clues would be somewhere around the TS 2.0/2.0.1 and the LabVIEW 5.1/5.1f1 timeframe.

The problem was that earlier versions of LabVIEW didn't store ActiveX call information correctly such that certain usually compatible changes to a server (TestStand, in this case) could break a VI with ActiveX nodes, requiring the nodes to be respecified.  However if you upgraded and compiled in the right order, you could avoid the problem.

Unfortunately, that's all I remember. This was many years ago.

[RayFarmer]

Hi,

I thought you were prompted to mass compile all VI's when installing TestStand.

Regards

Ray