Programmatically getting MAX devices and interfaces info

[JoshuaP]

Duplicate

[JÞB]

Joshua,

Thank you for bringing attention to the System Configuration API.!!

For those of you that are not familliar with these functions do read the help file here

LabVIEW Support for System Configuration installs as a MAX Component as a sub pallate of Measurement I/O.  Since it is technically a MAX component, the LabVIEW release notes fail to identify when this API became available or how the functions have grown since it was released (I can trace it back at least as far as MAX 4.7 which added System Configuration 1.1 in Nov 2010 and had support for LV 2010 I assume SC 1.0 released on the AUG 2010 DVD.)   Probably, the lack of mention in the LabVIEW upgrade notes is a contrubuting factor to why this very useful API being overlooked rather than rapidly adopted by many users that could benefit from these functions.

[JoshuaP]

You are correct. NI System Configuration released in 2010 and we have continued to expand the list of features with each release.  As you pointed out it is an extension of MAX, so you can use the latest version of NI System Configuration with past LabVIEW releases.  Currently, we support back to LabVIEW 2010.

Here is a link to some additional information.

https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-13216

In addition to reading the help I would also highly suggest looking throught the different examples.  You can find them in the example finder under Hardware Input and Output/System Configuration.

We also welcome suggestions for additional functionality.  Just post them to: http://forums.ni.com/t5/Additional-NI-Software-Idea/idb-p/nisoftware/label-name/system%20configurati...

[Jick]

Unfortunately I need to play with LV 8.5.1 But thanks anyway

*Jick

[JoshuaP]

If you need LV 8.5.1 support you can probably still use an older version of NI System Configuration.  Version 1.1 supported LV 8.5.

http://joule.ni.com/nidu/cds/view/p/id/2237/lang/en

In addition, you should be able to mix and match the development support with the runtime.  So install the NI System Configuration 1.1 Full distribution above and then you can install the latest NI System Configuration 5.5 run-time engine to get the latest bug fixes.

http://joule.ni.com/nidu/cds/view/p/id/4229/lang/en

In theory it should work since we try to never break backwards compatibility.