Palette view not showing the contents of palette set

[akuandi]

Hi!

I am new in the community, so "Hi everybody!" and thanks for your help

My problem: I have a scientific camera that has its own drivers and VI's for Labview. I have installed the camera properly, and I have already created a folder and copied the .llb archives on it.

When I open any of the examples to start working with it, I can see in the palette view, in the user controls, my folder. But inside the folder there is nothing. I can not find the llb's or VI's that I expected.

I have tried to go to Advanced/Edit Palette Set, but I don't know what to do, because I can find there all the .llb  and VI's. so it seems that everything is correct. But it is not, because I can't see any of them in the normal palette view.

Can sby tell me what am I mising? There should be sth that I haven't done correctly, but I don't know what.

Thanks!

[tim.h · Accepted solution]

Hey, welcome to the forums

The sets of Vis and llbs for your camera are known as an Instrument Driver. You have to extract these to a specific location so that LabVIEW can update the pallet sets using .mnu files included in the driver files.

The location is C:\Program Files\National Instruments\LabVIEW 2014\instr.lib\ 

Try moving your files there and then restarting LabVIEW.

This Knowledge Base article may also be useful for you:

http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/86256F0E001DA9FD86256F0B0057E6E7

The following white paper discusses how to modify, build and install .mnu files to add/modify the current palette set.

http://www.ni.com/tutorial/14528/en/

Cheers

[akuandi]

Hi tim.h,

thanks for your help.

I already knew the first of the links.

I will check the second one. But not now, cause I'm off for the weekend! 🙂

Enjoy it!

I will let you know if I get it work with that link.

Thanks again,

Akuandi

[akuandi]

Hi Tim!

Thanks for your help. It is already running!