NI Basic Elements IP for 2013

[Roger_P_Case]

I have updated my development system to 2013 DS2 along with VIPM and found that several of the NI packages with IP or examples for the PXIe-5644 are missing dependency "NI Basic Elements IP" which is available on VIPM for LabVIEW 2012.

Does anyone know where to find or an estimated time this will be update?

Regards,

Roger

[Ryan_V[DE]]

Hi Roger,

Since this is a very common package, we'll prioritize it for testing and distribution with 2013, and will push an update through the VI package manager soon. Until then, you have a couple of options. First, you can install the 2012 component, then copy the source from the LabVIEW 2012 user.lib directory into the LabVIEW 2013 user.lib directory. The copied source will no longer be maintained by VIPM, and future packages may even overwrite this source, but it is a temporary solution. The other option is to branch the installed example (copy it to a new location on your machine, which you should be doing anyway, before you modify it), then point the branched source to a different version of these basic elements - those installed by the VST installer, located in LabVIEW 2013's instr.lib\RF-RIO\Basic Elements directory, provided you have installed VST Instrument Design Library support. We wanted to make some of this IP (which has dependcies on the basic elements) more modular for targets other than the VST, not requiring the VST source code for use, so we created a second copy and are distributing it through VIPM. In the future, we have plans to converge on shared versions of some of the more common components, which would eliminate code duplication and reduce linking issues. But until then, we'll do our best to make as many of these things automatically installed and resolved as possible, reducing the occurance of situations like this. Hope this helps!

Regards,

Ryan