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Version 5.1 Addendum LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum February 1999 Edi tion Part Number 3221 79A-01.
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© National Instruments Corporation v LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum Contents About This Addendum Chapter 1 Required Configuration, Installation, and Upgrade Information Required System Configuration..................... ... .............. .............. ... ..
Contents LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum vi © National Instruments Corporation Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 Dialog Box, Menu, and Window Enhancements .......................................................... 2-1 Scaling Front Panel Objects ...........
Contents © National Instruments Corporation vii LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum Appendix A Manual Clarifications and Additions Multithreading ............................................................................................................... A- 1 ActiveX .
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© National Instruments Corporation ix LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum About This Addendum This addendum describes all of the new LabVIEW 5.1 features, compatibility issues, and configuration, installation, and upgrad e information. Upgrade issues pertain to LabVIEW 5.
© 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.
Chapter 1 Required Configuration, Installation, and U pgrade Information LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 1-2 © National Instruments Corporation Table 1-1. Installation Requirements Platf orm Media and System Requirements Important Notes All W indo ws Ve r s i o n s Distributed on CD-R OM.
Chapter 1 Required Configuration, Installation, and Upgrade Information © National Instruments Corporation 1-3 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum Po wer Macintosh Distributed on CD.
Chapter 1 Required Configuration, Installation, and U pgrade 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 pa tches. Concurrent PowerMAX LabVIEW 5.
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.
Chapter 1 Required Configuration, Installation, and U pgrade 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.
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.
Chapter 1 Required Configuration, Installation, and U pgrade Information LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 1-8 © National Instruments Corporation 3. If your CD was mou nted automatically , type the following command: pkgadd -d /cdrom/cdrom0/sola ris2 4.
Chapter 1 Required Configuration, Installation, and Upgrade Information © National Instruments Corporation 1-9 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 3. T o change the current directory to the mounted CD-R OM, type the following command: cd /mnt/cdrom. 4. T o run the installation script, type the follo wing command: .
Chapter 1 Required Configuration, Installation, and U pgrade Information LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 1-10 © National Instruments Corporation For More Information about LabVIEW After you have installed LabVIEW comple tely , it is ready to run.
Chapter 1 Required Configuration, Installation, and Upgrade Information © National Instruments Corporation 1-11 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum Y ou can find further information about the NI-D A Q dri v er in the NI-D A Q Read Me File. T o vie w this file, click the Start b utton and select Programs » LabVIEW » NI-D A Q Read Me File .
Chapter 1 Required Configuration, Installation, and U pgrade 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.
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.
Chapter 1 Required Configuration, Installation, and U pgrade 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.
Chapter 1 Required Configuration, Installation, and Upgrade Information © National Instruments Corporation 1-15 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum (Motif) T o change the behavior of mwm , use the xrdb command to set two mwm settings: mwm.clientAutoPlace: False mwm.
Chapter 1 Required Configuration, Installation, and U pgrade Information LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 1-16 © National Instruments Corporation 3. At the ok prompt, type: module-info Y ou then see information similar to the fo llowing lines: CPU FMI,MB86904 Rev.
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 LabVIEW 5.
Chapter 1 Required Configuration, Installation, and U pgrade 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.
Chapter 1 Required Configuration, Installation, and Upgrade Information © National Instruments Corporation 1-19 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum Y ou must upgrade the following add-ons for compatibility with LabVIEW 5.1: • LabVIEW Application Builder —Y ou must upgrade to LabVIEW Application Builder 5.
© 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. T o help you learn more about LabVIEW , version 5.1 of fers extensi v e online documentation, which you can access by choosing Hel p » Online Reference.
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 windo w back to its original position.
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.
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 2-4 © National Instruments Corporation Saving for a Previous V ersion With LabVIEW 5.1, you can save your VIs for the previous version of LabVIEW (LabVIEW 5.
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 f ile name to open it. The files are listed in chronological order , with the most recently opened file listed first.
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 2-6 © National Instruments Corporation T o f ind 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 def inition, select Find»All Instances .
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 LabV IEW 5.1 for advanced mathematics, picture control, report generation, and image management.
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 2-8 © National Instruments Corporation Dialog Controls All the dialog controls are now grouped together in a new Dialog palette, shown in Figure 2-1 below. You can reach this palette from the front panel by selecting Controls»Dialog .
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 © National Instruments Corporation 2-9 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum platform. The Dialog Recessed Frame control behav es like other decoration objects found in the Decorations palette. Y ou can use it as a grouping border to put around o ther dialog controls.
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 2-10 © National Instruments Corporation W ith LabVIEW 5.1, in addition to the VIs that previously w orked at runtime, you can set any of the.
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 © National Instruments Corporation 2-11 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum • History»Prompt for Com m ents at Save • History»Record Application Comments • History»Use Defaults Ring Enhancements All ring and enum constants include a dow n arrow, which distinguishes them from numeric constants.
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.
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 © National Instruments Corporation 2-13 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum T o access the ring constant when b uilding an Acti veX or IVI application, right-click the parameter that accepts data v alues and select Cr eate Constant .
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 2-14 © National Instruments Corporation 3. W ire the Automation refnum from the container terminal or an Automation function to the Create Activ eX Event Queue VI. 4. Place the W ait On ActiveX Event VI on the block diagram.
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 © National Instruments Corporation 2-15 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum HiQ and MA TLAB Functionality for Windows HiQ and MATLAB are software packages that help you organize and visualize real-world math, science, and engineering problems.
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, choo se Functions»Mathematics» F ormula»HiQ-Script .
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 © National Instruments Corporation 2-17 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 7. T o add inputs and outputs for variables, right-click the right side of the node frame and select Add Input or Add Output . T ype in a to add an output for the a variable that is included in your HiQ script.
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 2-18 © National Instruments Corporation Creating a MA TLAB Script Complete the following instructions to create and run a VI that uses a MATLAB script. 1. From the block diagram, choo se Functions»Mathematics» F ormula»MA TLAB Script .
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 © National Instruments Corporation 2-19 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 7. Run the VI. LabVIEW launches MA TLAB and a new MA TLAB window appears, labeled F igure No. 1 , that displays the matrix. The v alues that make up this matrix are displayed in the a indicator of your front panel in LabVIEW .
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 2-20 © National Instruments Corporation Scrolling through a HiQ or MA TLAB Script Just as with a regular formula node, yo u can display a scrollbar within y our script node by right-clicking the node and selectin g Show»Scrollbar .
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 © National Instruments Corporation 2-21 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum Debugging a HiQ or MA TLAB Script Use the following programming techniques to make debu gging your s.
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.
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 Ma thematics VIs topic in the LabVIEW Onlin e Reference .
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 .
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 platf orms and versions with the exception of the W indows base v ersion. Y ou can find e xamples of the Picture Control VIs in the ExamplesPicture directory .
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 2-26 © National Instruments Corporation T o create reports using the Report Generation VIs, go to the Functions»Repo rt Generation palette.
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 © National Instruments Corporation 2-27 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum See the Easy T ext Report VI description in the Report Generation VI Descriptions section later in this chapter for inform ation on this VI’ s parameters.
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, includin g descriptions and data types of each parameter.
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 © National Instruments Corporation 2-29 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum The Report Generation palette has two subpale ttes: • Functions»Report Generation»Report Layout • Functions»Report Generation»Advanced Reports You can find examples of the Report Generation VIs in the ExamplesReportsTextReportE xample.
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 2-30 © National Instruments Corporation F ont 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).
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 © National Instruments Corporation 2-31 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum left is the information you want to appear in the left side of the header . center is the informat ion you want to appear in the center portion of the header .
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 2-32 © National Instruments Corporation orientation specifies ho w the report appears when it is printed. Y ou can choose from portrait , which prints the report widthwise, or landscape , which prints the report lengthwise.
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 © National Instruments Corporation 2-33 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum T ext Options specifies ho w the text appears in the report. Italic determines whether subsequent text appears in italics in the report. Strike Thr ough determines whether subsequent text appears with strikethroughs in the repo rt.
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 2-34 © National Instruments Corporation Y ou might find using tokens with this VI helpful, particularly in the Headers and Footers parameters. For e xample you might want to gi ve the report a time stamp.
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 © National Instruments Corporation 2-35 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum Append Numeric T able to Report T akes a 2D array of numbers and appends it to a report as a table with the gi ven column widths.
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 sa ves memory . No further operations are permitted on the report. Howe v er , you can create a new report.
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 computer .
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 2-38 © National Instruments Corporation Set Report Header T ext Sets the text for the VI header . Y ou might find that using tokens with this VI is helpful, particularly in the Headers and F ooters parameters.
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 © National Instruments Corporation 2-39 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum Set Report T ab Width Sets the tab width in the report. T o place a tab in your text, insert the token <tab> in the text string. Alternati vely , you can use the Concatenate String function and insert a tab constant to build the te xt string.
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.
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 b ut are now on the Interface Specific palette: .
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.
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 op tion, data files copy o ver to your application directory automatically .
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 2-44 © National Instruments Corporation Activ eX server . When you build an application myapp.
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 © National Instruments Corporation 2-45 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum Note This completes the build application process on the UNIX and Macintosh platforms. The steps described in the follo wing section apply to W indows only .
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 2-46 © National Instruments Corporation fil e o r a registry file. Install the file as part of your installation and then run it afterwards to make the necessary modif ications. The file that you run must be one of the files that you install.
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.
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 2-48 © National Instruments Corporation The W eb Ser ver With the Web Server in Lab VIEW, you can pu blish your VI front p anels on the World Wide Web along with HTML documents.
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 © National Instruments Corporation 2-49 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum The W eb Ser ver Browser Access Dialog Box The Web Server Browser Access dialog box lists th e remote computers on the Internet that are allowed to access the Web Server.
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 2-50 © National Instruments Corporation T able 2-7 describes the av ailable options. When a bro wser attempts to connect to the W eb Serv er , the server examines the entries in the Browser Access List to determine whether the computer is permitted access.
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 © National Instruments Corporation 2-51 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum For e xample, if you giv e a.test.site.com and b.test.site.com access, but do not e xtend access to all addresses ending in .test.site.com (where the * wildcard indicates all), the two computers still hav e access.
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 2-52 © National Instruments Corporation The W eb Ser ver 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 b e published.
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 © National Instruments Corporation 2-53 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum T able 2-9 describes the av ailable options. Each entry in the Vis i b l e V I s list describes a VI name or a VI path and might contain wildcard characters.
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 2-54 © National Instruments Corporation ho w that entry is set up. If a subsequent entry also matches the VI, its access permission is used in place of the pre vious permission. If there is no VI in the list that matches the requested VI, access to the VI’ s image is denied.
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 e xported. No VI that begins with the string local_ and ends with the string .vi is exported, ev en if it is located within the c:labviewser ver directory .
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 2-56 © National Instruments Corporation Publishing Front Panel Images on the W eb Complete the following st eps to publish a VI fr ont panel image on the World Wide Web. 1. Run the W eb Server b y checking Enable W eb Server in the Prefer ences»W eb Server: Conf iguration di alog box.
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 © National Instruments Corporation 2-57 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum Viewing an Animated V ersion of a Front Panel Complete the following steps to view an animated version of a front panel.
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 panels.
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 © National Instruments Corporation 2-59 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum The syntax to use in the URL for static front panel images is as follo ws (parameters in brackets [ ] are optional): .
Chapter 2 New Features in LabVIEW 5.1 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum 2-60 © National Instruments Corporation The following are some examples on ho w you would use this syntax: • T o return the front panel image of the VI My VI.vi from the computer foo using the default image type , depth , and quality , use the following code: http://foo/.
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 follo ws (parameters in brackets [ ] are optional): .
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.
© 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 re vised for the v ersion 5.1 release of LabVIEW , th is appendix contains information relev ant only to the previous release.
Appendix A Manual Clarifications and Additions LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum A-2 © National Instruments Corporation Data Format — The compatibility VIs fo r the LabVIEW 4. x Autom ation functions require that you pass flattened d ata in the LabVIEW 4. x format.
Appendix A Manual Clarifications and Additions © National Instruments Corporation A-3 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum palettes are skipped. Unlike icon palettes, you cannot tack do wn text palettes or subpalettes. In All T ext mode, LabVIEW displays text palettes in the Project menu and the Find dialog box.
Appendix A Manual Clarifications and Additions LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum A-4 © National Instruments Corporation Figure A-1. File Manager T ool Dialog Box If you select an LLB, you can click Convert LLBs to Dirs to con v ert it to a directory .
Appendix A Manual Clarifications and Additions © National Instruments Corporation A-5 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum contain characters that are in valid on some platforms. By scanning within LLBs, this tool helps you detect potential problems if you move your files out of VI libraries.
Appendix A Manual Clarifications and Additions LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum A-6 © National Instruments Corporation Configuration File VIs — The Configuration File VIs, which you can access from the Functio.
Appendix A Manual Clarifications and Additions © National Instruments Corporation A-7 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum Support for T emplate VIs and Controls Y ou can save commonly used VIs and controls as templates. T o create a template VI, sa ve a VI with a .
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 k ernel runs L WPs. Highe r -priority e x ecution threads ( L WPs) ta k e ov er the system, not all o wing l o we r -priorit y sy stem tasks to e x ecute.
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 Ac t i vity 6-3, String Subsets and Number Extraction , sh o ws the From Exponential/Fract/Eng function.
Appendix A Manual Clarifications and Additions LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum A-10 © National Instruments Corporation 1073676421 VI_W ARN_UN KNOWN_ST A TUS The status code passed to the operation coul d not be interpreted.
Appendix A Manual Clarifications and Additions © National Instruments Corporation A-11 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum -1073807252 VI_ERR OR_ASRL_O VERR UN An overrun error occurred during transfer . A character was not read from the hardware before the next character arriv ed.
© 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 2-5 ActiveX Automation Open functio n improvemen.
Index LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum I-2 © National Instruments Corporation converting VIs, 1-18 CVI Functional Panel Converter, man ual changes for, A-2 D data acquisition (DAQ) DAQ enhancements, 2-39 to 2-40.
Index © National Instruments Corporation I-3 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum HiQ and MATLAB functionality fo r Windows, 2-15 to 2-22 integration of mathematics and signal processing VIs, 2-22 to 2-24 integratio.
Index LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum I-4 © National Instruments Corporation Linux, 1-8 to 1-9 Macintosh, 1-6 to 1 -7 more information about LabVIEW, 1-9 notes, 1-9 to 1-1 0 PowerMAX, 1-8 requirements Concurren.
Index © National Instruments Corporation I-5 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum Power Macintosh installation requirements (table), 1-3 sound VIs, 2-25 support for NI-DAQ for Windows and Macintosh, 2-39 Macintosh N.
Index LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum I-6 © National Instruments Corporation discontinued platform support, 1-5 installation requiremen ts (table ), 1-2 to 1-4 installing LabVIEW, 1-6 t o 1-1 1 Save for Previous option (note), 1-5 P Picture Control VIs, 2-24 to 2-25 Power Macintosh.
Index © National Instruments Corporation I-7 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum Find All Instances and Search Results dialog box, 2-5 to 2-6 Find dialog box, 2-5 server functionality compatibility VIs for, 1-16 VI.
Index LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum I-8 © National Instruments Corporation saving for previous version, 2-4 Signal Generator by Duration VI, A-2 sound VIs for Windows and Macintosh, 2-25 templates for VIs and.
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