LabView application on a Palm Pilot?

[crelf]

A client of mine wants to be able to use a Palm Pilot (m505) to recieve and display some serial data, and I'd very much like to use LabVIEW. Is there a LabVIEW for PalmOS (perhaps in the pipeline, maybe even being launched at NIWeek2002)? I'm hoping to get this project up and running within the next couple of weeks, so any ideas would be *really* helpful!

[GabbyG]

Nice,
a really good joke.

If people can make money with ideas like this, I wonder what I am doing.

Gabi

[Enrique]

I don't see the joke...

The demand for the capability to work with LabVIEW from a PDA seems to be in the rising. Some workarounds already exist.

[Enrique]

BTW: I did not rate your answer.

[Kemmerer]

I recently saw NI demonstrate something like this using a Windows CE device's IR port to launch VIs on a computer and to receive back answers. The handheld didn't run LabVIEW, it just talked to a running copy of LabVIEW on a PC via the IR port. The software running on the handheld was just some development package (not from NI) that made it easy to talk to the IR port. But it was possible to launch VI's on the remote PC and to receive the data - which is all you need.

Bill Kemmerer

[GabbyG]

Not that I knew, what "crelf" really wants. What he writes, looks a lot like a visualization of some serial data on a PDA. I really wonder whether Labview is the right tool to do such a thing (just sum up all the minmal needed dll's on a WINTEL computer).
What you other commenters describe is a window into another Labview-running computer, which should be possible with a Webbroser when Laview presents a Server or some ActiveX client on the Labview. I am not sure if ActiveX is already available on CE.

I know that a lot of nice things have been accomplished on PDA's like Flightmanagement computers and Linux ports and so on. I am just questioning, if it's the right direction to port something complex and powerful like Labview on an PDA just to rec
eive some serial data. Maybe it's just a confusion of people who think when MS announces a Word for CE it's the same as Word for Windows.
So excuse the conservasionistic thoughts of a European lady that grew up in the time of "real programmers". ;-)Gabi
(ref http://www.edfac.usyd.edu.au/staff/souters/Humour/Real.Programmer.Stories.html)

[crelf]

Well that's much better than your original reply - at least you try to explain yourself in this one.

What I'm actually after is a runtime engine or "player" for the palmOS - I'm definately not looking at doing my development on the Palm!

As for the time of "real programmers" - I'm one too, although I would never have the hide to suggest that now is not part of that time, but thanks to your use of an emoticon, you seemingly get away with it 😉

[Ted F.]

Hi crelf,

NI hasn't release any information on LabVIEW for PalmOS yet, but here is a customer solution you may be
interested in.

http://digital.ni.com/csma.nsf/IntAllCSDocs/4698B3DF6264B07886256B0A0073BF6D?OpenDocument&node=124400_US

Good luck crelf.

Thanks,
Ted F.

[crelf]

Thanks for everyone's help - I truly appreciate it!

[Christian_L]

For anybody who missed it, NI did show LV running on a Palm Pilot at NIWeek2002 and this version of LV is part of the current LV 7 beta.

Christian