labview and html

[Tom Impelluso]

There is a package called dvMockup for inspection of CAD parts.
dvMockup costs 60K, but enables one to inspect a CAD scene.


Now, I want a remote user to USE dvmockup to inspect my scene on a web
page.

dvMockup has a free plugin such that remote people w/o a liscense
to dvMockup can view a dmMockup scene. It is ONLY *I* that have to
have
the liscense. Remote inspectors get, for free, an ability to use
dmMockup ONLY TO VIEW...
Not to interact with my scene.

OK...


Now... today I saw a firm that does this:
They have a view of a bridge with strain gauges.
The person uses VRML to click on a guage and up comes a window w/
Labview.
They also use Labview as the html server.

So...

Does Labview have a facilty such that a remote person can
click on
something in my html pages and bring up a version of labview (stripped
down, of
course since they did not pay for labview and are not entitled to create
VI's...
only run them).


I see by looking at labview that there is a button called:
Start Web Server

I click on this and nothing happens.
Can someone tell me what this button does... what facility it provides?


Finally... suppose I am writing software to enable a remote user to view

my objects and inspect the data I am gathering from them. I would want
to provide them with a facility to do some minimal data analyses...
Transforms... and such...
The remote user tells me, and I create a VI to enable them to do it.
Can I then create a labview VI and bind that to my package and re-sell
it to
them so they can play with the data... without having to buy labview?
Say, for example, they now want to do a wavelet analysis... so I rewrite
the
VI and send it back to them. Each time, I hold the VI, but export to
them
the ability to
run it. What is the cost of this? And to whom?

Tom

[Tom Impelluso]

Tom Impelluso wrote:


A long wind-ed question that was basically trying to ask:

If I make a labview vi that I want a remote user to run off a web page...
Does the remote user have to buy labview?

Or can there be a web page that will allow a remote user to run my labview
vi?

Tom