Hello, I have created a distribution kit for my program.The problem is that the when the program is installed onto another computer, it fails to communicate with field point (Using FP-AO-200 and FP-AO-1000). Help is greatly appreciated, Thanks faen9901

[faen9901]

Hi Everyone,
I have a program that sends information(analog output) to lab windows cvi in the form of a text file or user input.
The program runs on the computers that I have the field point explorer and lab windows cvi installed on. In order to run the program without always installing labwindows/cvi and field point; I wanted to create an executable file that could be load on another computer.
I used the create distribution kit part of labwindows/cvi to do this.After creating the distribution kit, I then installed it to a
nother computer.
My user interface appears on the screen, when the user clicks on the exe. file, but no data is sent to the field point module. I know that the data is being read from the user and textfile because in it appears in the uir.

The following are some details about the problem:

1. On another computer without labwindows/cvi and field point explorer not installed - no data is sent to field point module
I know this because a current is being read on the current meter connected to field point module.

My questions are the following:
1. What are the possible reasons for the data not being sent to the field point module?

2. Do I still need to create an iak. (Installing Field point Explorer) file stored on any new computer that I install my created distribution kit file too?

Thankyou very much for any help that you can provide. I greatly appreciate it.

Faen9901

[Chris Matthews]

Re: Hello, I have created a distribution kit for my program.The problem is that the when the program is installed onto another computer, it fails to communicate with field point (Using FP-AO-200 and FP-AO-1000). Help is greatly appreciated, Thanks faen9901The distribution kit does NOT distribute drivers and configuration software for your hardware. You still need to install the FieldPoint software and configure Fieldpoint explorer on the other machine.

Best Regards,

Chris Matthews
National Instruments

[Farside]

Re: Hello, I have created a distribution kit for my program.The problem is that the when the program is installed onto another computer, it fails to communicate with field point (Using FP-AO-200 and FP-AO-1000). Help is greatly appreciated, Thanks faen9901Chris:

I am working with a NI-DAQ card that responds like the above Field Point HW. I have searched both the Measurement Studio folders as well as the NI-DAQ folders but I have not found an easily recognizable dll file for the PCI-DIO-96 card. Any suggestions on where to look for the dll? I have already installed the NI-DAQ Sw (Version 6.9.2) onto the target PC. The Card does respond properly when exercised via the Test Panel. Where and how would I find the necessary config information to setup the card?

[Aaron_G]

Re: Hello, I have created a distribution kit for my program.The problem is that the when the program is installed onto another computer, it fails to communicate with field point (Using FP-AO-200 and FP-AO-1000). Help is greatly appreciated, Thanks faen9901Please see my detailed answer to this question and the requirements for distributing FieldPoint applications in the Distributed IO--> FieldPoint Category.

Regards,
Aaron