how to edit a vi file without labview

[jba]

i work for the state of ri, and i have to edit a vi which was created about 4 years ago. we do not have labview here and wanted to know if it is possible to edit this. it is an exe file. i only need to make a minor change to it. please advise, very unfamiliar with labview, i cannot purchase labview, just wondering if there is anyway to edit this file

[Mark_Ireton]

You need Labview. An alternative might be to send out the original vi to a third party and have them make the change, but of course this generally costs money too.

[Dennis_Knutson]

If you can't buy LabVIEW, then there are a lot of NI Alliance companies out there that are capable of doing it for a fee. You can find a list at http://www.ni.com/alliance/. You will still need to have the original source code available.

[Labviewguru]

jba,

If this is a simple change, and IF you have the source code, I may consider doing it for you at no charge.

Email me with a description of the change, and we can talk about it. If you don't have the source code, there is nothing anyone can do, you will have to find the company or individual that created it so see if they have the source.

In general, there is nothing you can do to edit an executable (unless you know machine code, and how to correct the checksum) without the source code. Even then, you will have to have LabVIEW. It would also be good to know what version of LabVIEW it was done in, as some versions are harder to convert than others.

Good luck