NI-VISA does not appear in the addition installers window

[inversion]

Its seems that i cannot add any NI-VISA packages to my "additional installers" window.

The dev system has VISA 4.0 and LV 8.0 and even after downloading and installing the VISA runtime especially to fix this problem, i still cannot see it in the list!!! There also seems to be lots more missing from what i have seen in screenshots on previous posts. Why oh why is this happening!



Alex.

[Dippi]

Hi Alex,

it tested your problem on a Blank Windows XOP system.
First I installed Labview 8.0. Afterwards I tried to make an installer -> no VISA avainlable (See screenshot "Without VISA.jpg")
Then I installed VISA 4.0 FULL (e.g.).
Now I can build an installer including VISA -> see screenshot "After VISA installation.jpg"

==> Please reinstall NI-VISA (FULL Edition, not the runtime)

Hope that helps.

Best regards
Dippi

[inversion]

Thanks for your reply! It seems to have worked a treat!

I did the following steps:

1. uninstalled VISA 4.0 and DAQmx 8.x
2. installed DAQmx 8.6 (i wanted to upgrade to this a some point anyway)
3. installed VISA 4.2

I can now open the Installer Properties => Additional Installers window and have the following options:


and now that i can select the Measurement and Automation Explorer it has solved a second issue for me that i posted on this forum (see: Problems with building and installer - hardware config). An error used to occur when i tried to include the "Hardware Configuration from MAX" but there are no errors now. Im sure it has something to do with also including the MAX in your installer. See Below:


Happy days for a monday



Message Edited by ali66b on 11-19-2007 11:21 AM