labview afg31000

[fhsikandar@gmail.com]

Hi! I have installed the driver for tektronix afg31000 function generator. I can see some icons in the functions/controls palette but for others I can just see question marks on the icons.How can I resolve this issue so that I can use all the buttons available for the function generator (afg31000) ?

[GerdW]

Hi fhsikandar,

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fhsikandar@gmail.com wrote:

for others I can just see question marks on the icons.How can I resolve this issue so that I can use all the buttons available for the function generator (afg31000) ?

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Can you select those "others with question marks" when you choose the option to manually select a VI and navigating to the folder where you installed the driver VIs?

Where did you install the driver? Did you use the default installation folders?

[fhsikandar@gmail.com]

I am literally a beginner to labview, I have downloaded the driver to my computer and then pasted it in the instrument.lib folder which is a subfolder in my labview folder. I have attached a screenshot of how the drivers icon look like in my functions palette.

[Kyle97330]

Those "question mark" icons are almost certainly the "mnu" files used for sub-folders inside of palettes.

Best guess is that it's not in the place it expects to be in.

The usual place is a folder named this, adjusted for your LabVIEW version:

C:\Program Files (x86)\National Instruments\LabVIEW 20XX\instr.lib

You say it's in "instrument.lib", which isn't the exact folder name.  Also, if you downloaded it as a ZIP file and then put it in the folder, there might be an extra directory path in there since a lot of zippers and unzippers both include the path, i.e. it should be in "<instr.lib>\Folder", not "<instr.lib>\Folder\Folder" or deeper.

[aputman]

If you go to the Tools menu -> Instrumentation -> Find Instrument Drivers, you can search here for your instruments and let Labview handle the installation. 

[fhsikandar@gmail.com]

I have tried to delete the driver folder from its previous position and then just placed it inside instr.lib folder without going any deeper but I don't think it has resolved the issue