Hello All;
A word of caution if you are using LabVIEW 8.x with Vision 8.x installed as runtime: If you are using NI Vision in a runtime environment and have elected to use the 30-day evaluation license before purchasing a valid license, this is for you.
The evaluation license version has a few quirks associated with it. This caused some minor grief for me, and so I am passing it along. The only way to resolve these issues (that I am aware of) is to purchase and activate a valid license.
(1) Sometimes the license version will not always initialise correctly. This has resulted in runtime application that may appear to be buggy. If you are using the 30-day evaluation license, there is an additional toolbar that pops up, and you will need to select "Evaluate" if you do not have a license. If this does not pop up, the runtime app may seem to work correctly, but guaranteed it will hang or do something weird.
(2) When the 30-day trial has expired, do not count on a friendly message stating just that - sometimes you get it, sometimes you don't. Or it may be that it will show up the first time and that's it. I've seen both. Point is, if your runtime program was working fine "x" number of days ago, and no longer is, check the error messages generated. Chances are, there will be an "invalid IMAQ License" error in there somewhere.
Anyway, as I mentioned, 30-day evalutaion license is great, but it may give you some weird issues. The solution (and this has resolved all the cases I have come across - not that I'm an expert or anything) is to purchase and activate a valid license.
This caused me a certain amount of grief in the past. Hopefully it will help someone else out in the future.
DJH
Message Edited by Hannamon on 12-14-2006 01:17 PM
