How to use External Data Representation (XDR) with LabVIEW

[James_McN]

Hey All,

I wondered if anyone out there has used eXternal Data Representation with LabVIEW.  I am attempting to communicate with a Player server through LabVIEW (playerstage.sourceforge.net) on Windows.  It uses XDR encoding on the data message and was hoping to encode/decode these natively in LabVIEW but struggling to find any native or external libraries to do this.  Any ideas welcome as this is a showstopper for me!

Cheers,

Mac 

[John.P]

Hey Mac,

I have looked into this for you and unfortunately have been unable to find any previous example of this kind of encoding implemented in LabVIEW.

Other than developing the native LabVIEW functionality your best bet will be to look for some DLL's and call these from LabVIEW.

Sorry I cannot be more help.  Hopefully a community member may have used this encoding before and can point you at a library.

Best regards,

John

[James_McN]

Hey John,

Cheers for that.  After trawling many old sites I appear to have found a free, XDR implementation for windows.  It is from a german site but in google translate it is http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http://www.plt.r....  Haven't done any testing yet but appears to be what I need, there is hope yet!

Cheers,

Mac