Page 3 - Important Information; Warranty; Copyright
Important Information Warranty The media on which you receive National Instruments software are warranted not to fail to execute programming instructions, due to defects in materials and workmanship, for a period of 90 days from date of shipment, as evidenced by receipts or other documentation. Nati...
Page 4 - Contents; About This Addendum
© National Instruments Corporation v LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum Contents About This Addendum Chapter 1Required Configuration, Installation, and Upgrade Information Required System Configuration..................................................................................... 1-1Operating System Patches...
Page 6 - Index
Contents © National Instruments Corporation vii LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum Appendix AManual Clarifications and Additions Multithreading ............................................................................................................... A-1ActiveX ..................................................
Page 7 - Tables
Contents LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum viii © National Instruments Corporation Tables Table 1-1. Installation Requirements .................................................................... 1-2 Table 1-2. Common LabVIEW Launch Errors on UNIX ..................................... 1-13 Table 2-1. HiQ and MAT...
Page 9 - Required System Configuration
© National Instruments Corporation 1-1 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 1 Required Configuration, Installation, and Upgrade Information This chapter describes the system requirements for the LabVIEW software and contains installation instructions and updated documentation information. Read the Required System C...
Page 10 - Platform
Chapter 1 Required Configuration, Installation, and Upgrade Information LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 1-2 © National Instruments Corporation Table 1-1. Installation Requirements Platform Media and System Requirements Important Notes All Windows Versions Distributed on CD-ROM. A separate CD contains the compl...
Page 12 - Operating System Patches; Concurrent PowerMAX
Chapter 1 Required Configuration, Installation, and Upgrade Information LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 1-4 © National Instruments Corporation Operating System Patches For your LabVIEW package to run effectively, be sure to install the following patches. Concurrent PowerMAX LabVIEW 5.1 requires version 4.2 or ...
Page 13 - Distribution Changes in LabVIEW 5.1; LabVIEW 5.1 Platforms; Discontinued Media
Chapter 1 Required Configuration, Installation, and Upgrade Information © National Instruments Corporation 1-5 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum Distribution Changes in LabVIEW 5.1 This section explains changes in platform support and installation media with this and subsequent versions of LabVIEW. LabVIEW 5.1 P...
Page 14 - LabVIEW RT; Windows
Chapter 1 Required Configuration, Installation, and Upgrade Information LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 1-6 © National Instruments Corporation Installing LabVIEW If you are upgrading from an earlier version of LabVIEW, read the Upgrading to LabVIEW 5.1 section later in this chapter before installing LabVIEW. (...
Page 15 - Macintosh; UNIX
Chapter 1 Required Configuration, Installation, and Upgrade Information © National Instruments Corporation 1-7 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum Note The installer gives you the option of performing a full installation or a minimal installation. If you do not have sufficient disk space (approximately 85 MB), cho...
Page 16 - Linux
Chapter 1 Required Configuration, Installation, and Upgrade Information LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 1-8 © National Instruments Corporation 3. If your CD was mounted automatically, type the following command: pkgadd -d /cdrom/cdrom0/solaris2 4. If you used the mount command in step 2, type the following com...
Page 17 - PowerMAX
Chapter 1 Required Configuration, Installation, and Upgrade Information © National Instruments Corporation 1-9 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 3. To change the current directory to the mounted CD-ROM, type the following command: cd /mnt/cdrom. 4. To run the installation script, type the following command: ./IN...
Page 18 - For More Information about LabVIEW; Data Acquisition, VXI, and GPIB Installation Notes
Chapter 1 Required Configuration, Installation, and Upgrade Information LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 1-10 © National Instruments Corporation For More Information about LabVIEW After you have installed LabVIEW completely, it is ready to run. The LabVIEW User Manual and the LabVIEW Online Reference, which you...
Page 19 - Sun
Chapter 1 Required Configuration, Installation, and Upgrade Information © National Instruments Corporation 1-11 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum You can find further information about the NI-DAQ driver in the NI-DAQ Read Me File. To view this file, click the Start button and select Programs»LabVIEW»NI-DAQ Read ...
Page 20 - Installing HiQ for Windows; Examples and Solutions for Your LabVIEW Programs
Chapter 1 Required Configuration, Installation, and Upgrade Information LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 1-12 © National Instruments Corporation Installing HiQ for Windows The Windows CD includes HiQ, a mathematics application from National Instruments. If you install HiQ from the LabVIEW installation CD, a reg...
Page 21 - Error Message/Description; Solution—Exit the; Solution—Verify that the
Chapter 1 Required Configuration, Installation, and Upgrade Information © National Instruments Corporation 1-13 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum Low-Level Register I/O for Windows 95/98 LabVIEW is very similar on all Windows operating systems. Unless your application communicates with hardware that is not suppo...
Page 22 - Configuring LabVIEW Windows on UNIX; Configuring LabVIEW with the Tab Window Manager
Chapter 1 Required Configuration, Installation, and Upgrade Information LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 1-14 © National Instruments Corporation Configuring LabVIEW Windows on UNIX This section describes procedures for configuring LabVIEW windows on UNIX operating systems. Configuring LabVIEW with the Tab Windo...
Page 23 - Notice to Sun SPARCstation 5 Users
Chapter 1 Required Configuration, Installation, and Upgrade Information © National Instruments Corporation 1-15 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum (Motif) To change the behavior of mwm , use the xrdb command to set two mwm settings: mwm.clientAutoPlace: False mwm.positionIsFrame: False (CDE) To change the behavio...
Page 24 - Compatibility Issues between Versions 4.1 and 5.; Compatibility VIs for New Server Functionality
Chapter 1 Required Configuration, Installation, and Upgrade Information LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 1-16 © National Instruments Corporation 3. At the ok prompt, type: module-info You then see information similar to the following lines: CPU FMI,MB86904 Rev. 2.5 : 70.0 MHz SBus (Divide By 3) : 23.3 MHz 4. Ty...
Page 25 - Additional Resources
Chapter 1 Required Configuration, Installation, and Upgrade Information © National Instruments Corporation 1-17 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum previous versions. For more information about the new ActiveX functionality, refer to the Improvements to ActiveX Automation section in Chapter 2, New Features in LabV...
Page 26 - Converting VIs; Upgrading Application Libraries and Toolkits
Chapter 1 Required Configuration, Installation, and Upgrade Information LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 1-18 © National Instruments Corporation Converting VIs Upgrading LabVIEW is an automated process. When you open a VI created in a previous version, LabVIEW automatically converts and compiles the VI. Convers...
Page 27 - . Alternatively, you can choose Edit»Edit Control and
Chapter 1 Required Configuration, Installation, and Upgrade Information © National Instruments Corporation 1-19 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum You must upgrade the following add-ons for compatibility with LabVIEW 5.1: • LabVIEW Application Builder—You must upgrade to LabVIEW Application Builder 5.1. This upgr...
Page 28 - Dialog Box, Menu, and Window Enhancements; Scaling Front Panel Objects
© National Instruments Corporation 2-1 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 This chapter describes the features added and the significant changes made between versions 5.0 and 5.1. To help you learn more about LabVIEW, version 5.1 offers extensive online documentation, which you can ac...
Page 29 - You are operating in Edit mode.; Setting an Object to Scale
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 2-2 © National Instruments Corporation • Once an object scales itself automatically, it might not scale back to its exact original size, when you size the window back to its original position. However, you can use the Undo command to restore...
Page 30 - Setting All Objects on a Front Panel to Scale; Defining a Minimum Window Size; From the front panel of the VI, select VI Setup.
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 © National Instruments Corporation 2-3 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum Setting All Objects on a Front Panel to Scale You can designate an entire front panel so that all of its objects scale automatically to match changes to the front panel window. 1. From the front panel o...
Page 31 - Saving for a Previous Version; Accessing Recently Opened Files
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 2-4 © National Instruments Corporation Saving for a Previous Version With LabVIEW 5.1, you can save your VIs for the previous version of LabVIEW (LabVIEW 5.0). This makes upgrading LabVIEW very convenient, and helps you to maintain your VIs ...
Page 32 - Searching in LabVIEW; Find All Instances and Search Results Dialog Box
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 © National Instruments Corporation 2-5 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum When you choose File»Recently Opened Files, a submenu appears that contains the list of recently opened files. Select the file name to open it. The files are listed in chronological order, with the most...
Page 33 - Macintosh Navigation Services in LabVIEW
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 2-6 © National Instruments Corporation To find all instances of an object, right-click the object for which you want to find references: • If you are searching for a reference to a type definition, select Find»All Instances. (For more inform...
Page 34 - Changes to Controls and Indicators; Labels
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 © National Instruments Corporation 2-7 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum New VIs, Functions, and Controls This section describes the new functionality in LabVIEW 5.1 for advanced mathematics, picture control, report generation, and image management. Changes to Controls and I...
Page 36 - D Graph Controls for Windows; Enhancements to Property and Invoke Nodes
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 © National Instruments Corporation 2-9 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum platform. The Dialog Recessed Frame control behaves like other decoration objects found in the Decorations palette. You can use it as a grouping border to put around other dialog controls. 3D Graph Cont...
Page 38 - Ring Enhancements
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 © National Instruments Corporation 2-11 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum • History»Prompt for Comments at Save • History»Record Application Comments • History»Use Defaults Ring Enhancements All ring and enum constants include a down arrow, which distinguishes them from nume...
Page 39 - IVI Instrument Drivers and ActiveX
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 2-12 © National Instruments Corporation IVI Instrument Drivers and ActiveX Some parameters for ActiveX and IVI take a discrete list of valid values. Previously, when building ActiveX and IVI applications, you used numeric values to set param...
Page 40 - ActiveX Enhancements for Windows; Support for ActiveX Events; Working with ActiveX Events
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 © National Instruments Corporation 2-13 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum To access the ring constant when building an ActiveX or IVI application, right-click the parameter that accepts data values and select Create Constant. To see the corresponding numeric data value, righ...
Page 41 - ActiveX Event Functions for Windows
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 2-14 © National Instruments Corporation 3. Wire the Automation refnum from the container terminal or an Automation function to the Create ActiveX Event Queue VI. 4. Place the Wait On ActiveX Event VI on the block diagram. 5. Wire the event q...
Page 42 - HiQ and MATLAB Functionality for Windows
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 © National Instruments Corporation 2-15 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum HiQ and MATLAB Functionality for Windows HiQ and MATLAB are software packages that help you organize and visualize real-world math, science, and engineering problems. You can use HiQ and MATLAB to expr...
Page 43 - Creating a HiQ Script
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 2-16 © National Instruments Corporation Creating a HiQ Script Complete the following instructions to create and run a VI that uses a HiQ script. 1. From the block diagram, choose Functions»Mathematics»Formula»HiQ-Script. Place the node on th...
Page 45 - Creating a MATLAB Script
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 2-18 © National Instruments Corporation Creating a MATLAB Script Complete the following instructions to create and run a VI that uses a MATLAB script. 1. From the block diagram, choose Functions»Mathematics»Formula»MATLAB Script. Place the n...
Page 46 - Importing or Exporting a Script; Select Export.... The Save Script as dialog box appears.; Choosing a Script Server
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 © National Instruments Corporation 2-19 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 7. Run the VI. LabVIEW launches MATLAB and a new MATLAB window appears, labeled Figure No. 1, that displays the matrix. The values that make up this matrix are displayed in the a indicator of your fron...
Page 47 - Scrolling through a HiQ or MATLAB Script
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 2-20 © National Instruments Corporation Scrolling through a HiQ or MATLAB Script Just as with a regular formula node, you can display a scrollbar within your script node by right-clicking the node and selecting Show»Scrollbar. A scrollbar ap...
Page 48 - Debugging a HiQ or MATLAB Script; LabVIEW Datatype
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 © National Instruments Corporation 2-21 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum Debugging a HiQ or MATLAB Script Use the following programming techniques to make debugging your script easier: • Write your script and run it within the native engine (HiQ or MATLAB) for testing and d...
Page 49 - Error Codes; Error Code
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 2-22 © National Instruments Corporation Error Codes The following table explains error messages you might receive at runtime when working with a script node. Integration of Mathematics and Signal Processing VIs LabVIEW 5.1 includes more VIs ...
Page 50 - Mathematics Palette
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 © National Instruments Corporation 2-23 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum For function and reference information about the Mathematics VIs and functions, refer to the Mathematics VIs topic in the LabVIEW Online Reference. Mathematics Palette Table 2-3 lists the subpalettes y...
Page 51 - Signal Processing Palette; Integration of the Picture Control VIs
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 2-24 © National Instruments Corporation Signal Processing Palette For function and reference information about the Signal Processing VIs, refer to the Signal Processing VIs topic in the LabVIEW Online Reference. Table 2-4 lists the subpalett...
Page 52 - Sound VIs for Windows and Macintosh; Generating Reports in LabVIEW for Windows; function. The VI is located in Functions»Communication.
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 © National Instruments Corporation 2-25 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum Note The Picture Control VIs are available on all platforms and versions with the exception of the Windows base version. You can find examples of the Picture Control VIs in the Examples\Picture directo...
Page 53 - Hints for Generating Reports in LabVIEW
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 2-26 © National Instruments Corporation To create reports using the Report Generation VIs, go to the Functions»Report Generation palette. You can use the Report Generation VIs to do the following: • Set up a report’s headers and footers (whi...
Page 54 - Report In/Report Out Parameters; Token
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 © National Instruments Corporation 2-27 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum See the Easy Text Report VI description in the Report Generation VI Descriptions section later in this chapter for information on this VI’s parameters. Tip See the block diagram of the Easy Text Report...
Page 55 - Report Generation VI Descriptions
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 2-28 © National Instruments Corporation Report Generation VI Descriptions This section describes the Report Generation VIs, including descriptions and data types of each parameter. From the block diagram, you can reach the new Report Generat...
Page 56 - Report Generation Parameter Descriptions
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 © National Instruments Corporation 2-29 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum The Report Generation palette has two subpalettes: • Functions»Report Generation»Report Layout • Functions»Report Generation»Advanced Reports You can find examples of the Report Generation VIs in the E...
Page 57 - Weight indicates how dark bold characters appear.
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 2-30 © National Instruments Corporation Font Settings indicates what font settings currently are used in a report. Charset indicates the character set used in the report (such as the set for a specific language). Weight indicates how dark bo...
Page 59 - Row Headers determines how each row is labeled in the table.; Separate Page? Places the table on a new page of the report.
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 2-32 © National Instruments Corporation orientation specifies how the report appears when it is printed. You can choose from portrait, which prints the report widthwise, or landscape, which prints the report lengthwise. Printer Name specifie...
Page 60 - Text Options specifies how the text appears in the report.; Easy Text Report
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 © National Instruments Corporation 2-33 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum Text Options specifies how the text appears in the report. Italic determines whether subsequent text appears in italics in the report. Strike Through determines whether subsequent text appears with str...
Page 61 - Append File to Report; ) into the current report. You must wire the file path; Append Report Text
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 2-34 © National Instruments Corporation You might find using tokens with this VI helpful, particularly in the Headers and Footers parameters. For example you might want to give the report a time stamp. See the Tokens topic, earlier in this c...
Page 62 - Append Numeric Table to Report
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 © National Instruments Corporation 2-35 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum Append Numeric Table to Report Takes a 2D array of numbers and appends it to a report as a table with the given column widths. Append Text Table to Report Takes a 2D array of strings and appends it to ...
Page 63 - Dispose Report
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 2-36 © National Instruments Corporation Dispose Report Closes the report and releases its interface, which saves memory. No further operations are permitted on the report. However, you can create a new report. You can use this VI only as the...
Page 64 - New Report Page
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 © National Instruments Corporation 2-37 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum New Report Page Adds a new page in the report to which you can append text or append another file. Print Report Prints the report to a designated printer or to the default printer set up on your comput...
Page 65 - Set Report Header Text; Set Report Margins; Set Report Orientation
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 2-38 © National Instruments Corporation Set Report Header Text Sets the text for the VI header. You might find that using tokens with this VI is helpful, particularly in the Headers and Footers parameters. For example, you might want to give...
Page 66 - Set Report Tab Width; Enhancements to DAQ; DAQ Solution Wizard
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 © National Instruments Corporation 2-39 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum Set Report Tab Width Sets the tab width in the report. To place a tab in your text, insert the token <tab> in the text string. Alternatively, you can use the Concatenate String function and inser...
Page 67 - Enhancements to VISA; Channel List Element
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 2-40 © National Instruments Corporation If you are scanning modules, you can scan an arbitrary number of channels for each module using channel list elements that are components of the SCXI channel syntax. Previously, however, the channels o...
Page 68 - Building Executable Programs
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 © National Instruments Corporation 2-41 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum three VIs could be found on the VISA Serial palette but are now on the Interface Specific palette: • VISA Set Serial Buffer Size • VISA Flush Serial Buffer • VISA Serial Break In addition to the above ...
Page 69 - Building an Application; If you already have a build file, click Load... and choose the .; From the Target tab, specify the following information:
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 2-42 © National Instruments Corporation Building an Application Complete the following instructions to build an application in LabVIEW. 1. Select Project»Build Application…. The Build Application dialog box appears. The Build Application dia...
Page 70 - Customizing Application Features; icon checkbox and designate the path to the icon.
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 © National Instruments Corporation 2-43 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum c. If you want to add support files, click Add Support File…. When you use this option, data files copy over to your application directory automatically. In addition to VI files (VIs, controls, menus, ...
Page 71 - Modifying VIs as Part of the Build
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 2-44 © National Instruments Corporation ActiveX server. When you build an application myapp.exe , an ActiveX type library myapp.tlb is also created along with the executable. The type library defines a createable class, Application, and a di...
Page 73 - Run-Time Engine for the Application Builder for Windows
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 2-46 © National Instruments Corporation file or a registry file. Install the file as part of your installation and then run it afterwards to make the necessary modifications. The file that you run must be one of the files that you install. 4...
Page 74 - Enhancements to Networking; DataSocket VIs for Windows; Web Server: Configuration
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 © National Instruments Corporation 2-47 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum Enhancements to Networking This section describes the networking enhancements in LabVIEW 5.1. DataSocket VIs for Windows DataSocket technology facilitates the exchange of data and information between a...
Page 75 - The Web Server
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 2-48 © National Instruments Corporation The Web Server With the Web Server in LabVIEW, you can publish your VI front panels on the World Wide Web along with HTML documents. The built-in Web Server is intended for users that need to make the ...
Page 76 - The Web Server Browser Access Dialog Box
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 © National Instruments Corporation 2-49 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum The Web Server Browser Access Dialog Box The Web Server Browser Access dialog box lists the remote computers on the Internet that are allowed to access the Web Server. Access the Web Server Browser Acc...
Page 77 - Option; Add
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 2-50 © National Instruments Corporation Table 2-7 describes the available options. When a browser attempts to connect to the Web Server, the server examines the entries in the Browser Access List to determine whether the computer is permitte...
Page 78 - Access String
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 © National Instruments Corporation 2-51 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum For example, if you give a.test.site.com and b.test.site.com access, but do not extend access to all addresses ending in .test.site.com (where the * wildcard indicates all), the two computers still hav...
Page 79 - The Web Server Visible VIs Dialog Box
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 2-52 © National Instruments Corporation The Web Server Visible VIs Dialog Box Because the Web Server publishes front panels to the Web, it is best to specify which VI front panels you allow to be published. Through the Web Server: Visible VI...
Page 81 - Wildcard; VI Access String
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 2-54 © National Instruments Corporation how that entry is set up. If a subsequent entry also matches the VI, its access permission is used in place of the previous permission. If there is no VI in the list that matches the requested VI, acce...
Page 82 - Configuring the Web Server; Running the Web Server
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 © National Instruments Corporation 2-55 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum the string srvr_ and ends with the string .vi is exported. No VI that begins with the string local_ and ends with the string .vi is exported, even if it is located within the c:\labview\server director...
Page 83 - Publishing Front Panel Images on the Web
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 2-56 © National Instruments Corporation Publishing Front Panel Images on the Web Complete the following steps to publish a VI front panel image on the World Wide Web. 1. Run the Web Server by checking Enable Web Server in the Preferences»Web...
Page 84 - Viewing an Animated Version of a Front Panel; Determining Which Front Panels are Visible
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 © National Instruments Corporation 2-57 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum Viewing an Animated Version of a Front Panel Complete the following steps to view an animated version of a front panel. 1. Open a Web browser. 2. Type in a URL that includes the address of the LabVIEW ...
Page 85 - What URLs Can I Use with My Front Panel Images?; Front Panel Image Formats
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 2-58 © National Instruments Corporation What URLs Can I Use with My Front Panel Images? With the Web Server, you can publish images of your VI front panels on the World Wide Web. You do not need to modify the VIs to display their front panel...
Page 88 - Refresh is number of seconds between each succeeding image.
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 © National Instruments Corporation 2-61 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum The syntax to use in the URL for static front panel images is as follows (parameters in brackets [ ] are optional): .monitor?VI_Name [&type=type] [&depth=depth] [&quality=quality] [&com...
Page 89 - quality but using; Enhancements to Examples and Activities
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 2-62 © National Instruments Corporation Lifespan is the number of seconds the front panel animation lasts. Setting Lifespan=0 implies that the animation continues until the browser cancels it. If no lifespan is specified, the default lifespa...
Page 90 - Multithreading; ole_lv5container.dll —The ActiveX Container uses a DLL named
© National Instruments Corporation A-1 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum A Manual Clarifications and Additions This appendix clarifies and corrects information in the LabVIEW manual set. Because these manuals were not revised for the version 5.1 release of LabVIEW, this appendix contains information relevant onl...
Page 91 - Instrumentation; General Interface Features; Icon and Text Palettes
Appendix A Manual Clarifications and Additions LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum A-2 © National Instruments Corporation Data Format —The compatibility VIs for the LabVIEW 4.x Automation functions require that you pass flattened data in the LabVIEW 4. x format. LabVIEW 5.x loads your LabVIEW 4. x VIs and automati...
Page 92 - File Manager Tool
Appendix A Manual Clarifications and Additions © National Instruments Corporation A-3 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum palettes are skipped. Unlike icon palettes, you cannot tack down text palettes or subpalettes. In All Text mode, LabVIEW displays text palettes in the Project menu and the Find dialog box. In S...
Page 94 - Other General Interface Features
Appendix A Manual Clarifications and Additions © National Instruments Corporation A-5 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum contain characters that are invalid on some platforms. By scanning within LLBs, this tool helps you detect potential problems if you move your files out of VI libraries. Use the Show dates opti...
Page 96 - Support for Template VIs and Controls
Appendix A Manual Clarifications and Additions © National Instruments Corporation A-7 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum Support for Template VIs and Controls You can save commonly used VIs and controls as templates. To create a template VI, save a VI with a .vit extension (or .ctt extension for typedefs). When y...
Page 97 - Clarifications to the LabVIEW User Manual
Appendix A Manual Clarifications and Additions LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum A-8 © National Instruments Corporation • The LabVIEW priority system is reflected in the way the kernel runs LWPs. Higher-priority execution threads (LWPs) take over the system, not allowing lower-priority system tasks to execute. •...
Page 98 - VISA Error Codes
Appendix A Manual Clarifications and Additions © National Instruments Corporation A-9 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum • In Chapter 6, Strings and File I/O, the block diagram in Activity 6-3, String Subsets and Number Extraction, shows the From Exponential/Fract/Eng function. The block diagram should show the S...
Page 101 - Numbers
© National Instruments Corporation I-1 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum Index Numbers 3D graph controls for Windows, 2-9 A accessing recently opened files, 2-4 to 2-5ActiveX Automation Open function improvements, 2-14 compatibility VIs for ActiveX functions, 1-16 enhancements for Windows, 2-13 to 2-14 ring enha...
