How to install Spectral Measurements and Modulation Toolkits for multiple versions of Labview

[CherieM]

I installed NI-RFSG, NI-RFSA, the Spectral Measurements Toolkit, and the Modulation Toolkit.  I have both LabVIEW 7.1 and 8.0 installed on my system.  I developed an application in LV 8.0 and now I need to revert it to LV 7.1.  The problem I am having is that add-on toolkits seem to only have been installed for LV 8.0 because there are several missing VIs and controls when I try to open the LV 7.1 version.  I tried re-installing the toolkits, but this is not fixing the problem.  How can I get the installer to install the toolkits for both versions of LabVIEW?

Thanks for your help,

Cherie

[Jerome · Accepted solution]

Hello Cherie,
it's a know issue. You can read it in the modulation toolkit readme :

Two Versions of LabVIEW Installed
The installer supports installation of the Modulation Toolkit into a single
version of LabVIEW; installation of the Toolkit into multiple separate
installations of LabVIEW (for instance LabVIEW 7.0 and LabVIEW 7.1 installed
on the same PC and in separate directories) is not supported or recommended.
An unsupported means of doing so though involves manually copying files from
one LabVIEW installation to another. To do so, you can install the
Modulation Toolkit to the home directory of one LabVIEW installation, and
then manually copy the installed files to the other LabVIEW installation.
The following list includes pertinent directories and files. Copy all files
from these directories, including any subdirectories, using the equivalent
relative paths to the LabVIEW home directory for the target.

<LabVIEW Home>\vi.lib\AddOns\Modulation\*.*
<LabVIEW Home>\vi.lib\AddOns\NISML\*.*
<LabVIEW Home>\examples\Modulation\*.*
<LabVIEW Home>\resource\objmgr\NIMTAttribs.rc
<LabVIEW Home>\resource\objmgr\NIMTAttribs.rch
<LabVIEW Home>\help\lvmod.txt
<LabVIEW Home>\help\lvmod.chm
<LabVIEW Home>\help\lvdmt.txt
<LabVIEW Home>\help\lvdmt.chm

Note that this listing does not include all installed files. Also, copying
files in this manner is not equivalent to a full installation into the
alternative version of LabVIEW. Most notably error text unique to the
Modulation Toolkit will not be updated and the Example Finder listings will
not show the Modulation Toolkit examples.



jerome



"CherieC" <x@no.email> a écrit dans le message de news:
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>I installed NI-RFSG, NI-RFSA, the Spectral Measurements Toolkit, and the
>Modulation Toolkit.&nbsp; I have both LabVIEW 7.1 and 8.0 installed on my
>system.&nbsp; I developed an application in LV 8.0 and now I need to revert
>it to LV 7.1.&nbsp; The problem I am having is that add-on toolkits seem to
>only have been installed for LV 8.0 because there are several missing VIs
>and controls when I try to open the LV 7.1 version.&nbsp; I tried
>re-installing the toolkits, but this is not fixing the problem.&nbsp; How
>can I get the installer to install the toolkits for both versions of
>LabVIEW?
> &nbsp;
> Thanks for your help,
> Cherie

[Bob_Y.]

This is a very common problem especially for power users of LabVIEW (who have multiple toolkits and multiple versions of LabVIEW).  The Signal Processing Toolkit does the right thing.  It detects the versions of LabVIEW that are installed and lets you install into which ever one(s) that you need.

I think that NI should get all the toolkit installer personnel together and make them all use the version that the Signal Processing Toolkit uses instead of having multiple different versions.

If one of the AEs would CAR this to all of the other toolkits, that would be great.

Thanks,
Bob Young

[CherieM]

Thanks for your help.

Cherie