MCP2210 DLL and LabVIEW 2014

[LiliMcDonald]

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@rolfk wrote:

Comeon guys, this is a completely useless exchange. The original request was pretty unspecific and did not provide a lot of information about what would be the problem. Accordingly it didn't produce a lot of useful feedback. But starting to call each other names after that is even less productive.

Accessing DLLs is not really a LabVIEW problem. LabVIEW provides the tools and tries to make it as simple as possible to access any possible DLL out there and then it's the users responsibility to understand how the specific DLL works and should be interfaced. LabVIEW can not do more than it already does, since the DLL interface is a pretty loosely defined interface that provides not much more information than the function names itself. How these functions need to be called is entirely up to the programmer, and that is not the developers of LabVIEW but you as the users of LabVIEW.

If you want a technical answer you need to ask a technical question. "It doesn't work!" is not technical, neither is "Please help me to make this work!"

A proper post about something like this contains the actual VIs you have already tried to make work, the documentation about the DLL and the header files for the DLL. With anything less than this it is hard to provide support for such a question. You basically expect us to find out what the DLL is, where it comes from, where one can find its documentation and write some test VIs to find out how it may work. And that all for someone who in all likelyhood doesn't have access to the real hardware so can't really test it on his own system.

You need to provide as much information and help as possible to the people on this forum in order to help them helping you or you end up with no useful answers!

And the last post was completely unneeded for. I have read quite a few of nyc's responses and they are quite often far from providing no help at all to the original poster!

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Thank you, Rolf, for making this post; you made some good points.

Providing the most information you can in regards to an issue you are facing will help you receive better help from the community. Also, please remember the users here are here voluntarily to help answer questions. We should all act in a professional and respectful manner -- new and old members alike. If you're a new user and haven't seen the NI Community User Guidelines, you can view them here.

Let's keep this thread on-topic to help address the outstanding questions.

Thank you.