Instrument I/O Assistant Missing

[NovaMark]

Hi I am trying to communicate with an oscilloscope through Labwindows CVI by making use of the Instrument I/O Assistant, and on this site it shows how one is able to do that:

http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/4554

However in my tools menu there is no Create Instrument I/O Task option available.  I am running version 6.0 could that be the reason? If so any other ways to get around that? And if not any ideas how I can communicate with the oscilloscope through the Instrument I/O Assistant.

Thanks in advance

[Anna_K.]

Hello,

It could be that Instrument I/O Assistant was not around in CVI 6.0, be sure that you have NI VISA installed. Are you talking Serial or GPIB to the instrument? You certainly do not need the instrument I/O assistant, you can write the code yourself and start with the VISA examples which cab be found at:

Start >> Programs >> National Instruments >> VISA >> Examples >> C

Have a good weekend!

[NovaMark]

I am talking Serial to the instrument which is another problem that I have to deal with, but I was hoping to just have the simple option of the Instrument I/O Assistant available.

Any ideas of another path it might be under?

Thanks

[Anna_K.]

I had found this document that states that the I/O Assistant was created for LabWindows 7.1 and later.

http://joule.ni.com/nidu/cds/view/p/id/806/lang/en

You will see that the examples are really straight forward as well.

Thanks,

Anna K.