copy and paste VI blocks from one VI to another VI becomes a picture/image, why?

[tmntic]

i am trying to copy and paste VI blocks from one VI program to another. but when i paste them, they become pictures/image format.... i can't connect any lines to any terminals on the pasted Vi blocks.... what is happening please??

i look forward to hear from you. thank you for your kind attention.

Regards,
tmnt007
LabVIEW 8.2, WinXP

[shoneill]

Could it be you're trying to copy from one LV version to another??

Shane

[mikeporter]

Could you list the exact steps you go through to produce the problem?

Mike...

[shoneill]

A second guess could be if you're trying to copy code which is not supported in your version of LV (for example the Event structure in basic version).  I know that editing is allowed, but not creation.

Perhaps this is your problem?

Which LV version (number - 8.2, 7.1... and licence - basic, full, professional...) do you have?

Shane.

[tmntic]

Hi shoneill and mikeporter,

thank you both for your concerns and enquiries...

For some reason, i can't reproduce the error i had, and now i can copy and paste the VIs as usual......

maybe the restart on LabVIEW helped...

Take care.

[Ben]

I think I saw something simlar when I was debugging an executable and tried to paste the code into the development environment.

Ben

[pigwet]

This happened to me as well. I found out that I had the VI open in a 2nd instance of Labview. So I couldn't copy from a VI running in one instance of Labview to another instance of Labview. 

[mikeporter]

Same questions as 7 years ago.

"Could you list the exact steps you go through to produce the problem?"

And a couple of new ones: what OS and what version of LabVIEW?

Mike...

PS: For future reference, post that simply say, "Ooh, Ooh, me too, me too" are seldom helpful.

[guyfawkes]

I faced with the same problem as well. One VI was run as admin, but another one not. That was the reason in my case that after copy/paste code appeared as image