Problem porting desktop application to PDA

[sashi1977]

Hi, I'm a newbie to LabVIEW and I'm hoping someone could help me answer this question.

There is an application developed for the desktop using LabView and it works fine.

But when I try to port it to PDA, it gives me an error when I try to build it for PDA.

I start LabVIEW choosing PocketPC 2003 as the execution target. Then I open the vi file that was used to create the original desktop application. When I click 'Build for PDA..', I get an error saying 'Unsupported control'.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Regards,
SASHI

[tst]

Try reading the manual which comes with the PDA module.

The PDA module is relatively new and still suffers from some childhood problems - many options which are available on the PC are not available on the PDA module (like property nodes, like display for certain controls), the display is hard to get right and there are still many annoying little bugs. The bottom line is that you can't take just any PC application and port it over to the PDA module, because it will quite likely have features which aren't supported. Hopefully LV 8, which should come out in the next couple (?) of months, will be better.

So the answer is - you're probably not doing anything wrong. Read the manual to see which options aren't supported. Other considerations when developing for the PDA is the much smaller memory, different user interface and hardware communication.

To learn more about LabVIEW, I suggest you try searching this site and google for LabVIEW tutorials. Here and here are a couple you can start with. You can also contact your local NI office and join one of their courses.
In addition, I suggest you read the LabVIEW style guide and the LabVIEW user manual (Help>>Search the LabVIEW Bookshelf).

[sashi1977]

tst,

Appreciate the response - your suggestions are very helpful.
Thanks!

Sashi