How to include NI-SPY in the Deployment system

[Rafi2003]

Hello,

I would like to include the NiSpy in the deployment system I'm making. I included all the files in the 'C:\Program Files\National Instruments\NI Spy' directory and the 'nispylog.dll' located in the 'c:\winNT\system32\' directory.

The program is running when called, however when I select the 'Start Capture' (blue arrow) I get the following error message: 'NI Spy could not enable capturing because no API is selected. Please select at least one API from the Spy menu and try again. If there are no APIs' listed under the Spy menu, reinstall the National instruments driver software to fix this problem''

Can you advice me how to solve this problem?
a) Which files are missing?
b) If I want to install Ni Spy alone, how to do that?

Thanks
Rafi

[Scott_Richardson]

Rafi -
NISpy has an installer and I would recommend using it instead of trying to figure out the files to install manually. The DriverCD that comes with TestStand contains the installer and it is typically located on disk2 at \components\visa\ni-spy\NISpy.msi. I suspect that various NI drivers also install support for their APIs, so using their installers would be appropriate.