National Instruments Window - Changes to System Requirements; Toolslib Instrument Drivers; Multithreading Limitations on Toolslib Instruments; New Sample Programs

© National Instruments Corporation 7 LabWindows/CVI Release Notes for Windows
Changes to System Requirements
If you want to run LabWindows/CVI 5.0 on Windows NT, you must have Windows NT 4.0
or higher. LabWindows/CVI 5.0 does not run on Windows NT 3.51.
Note
Version 5.0 is the final release of LabWindows/CVI for Windows 3.1.
Toolslib Instrument Drivers
Table 1 lists new instrument drivers.
Multithreading Limitations on Toolslib Instruments
The following instruments under the \toolslib\ subdirectory are not multithread safe:
•
custctrl\animate.fp
• custctrl\daqchart.fp
• custctrl\easytab.fp
• custctrl\movectrl.fp
• custctrl\pwctrl.fp
• custctrl\scroll.fp
• custctrl\toolbar.fp
• toolbox\regexpr.fp
• toolbox\toolbox.fp
New Sample Programs
Table 2 lists new samples.
Table 1.
New Toolslib Instrument Drivers
Filename Description
toolslib\
custctrl\cviogl.fp
3D OpenGL plotting control
toolbox\asynctmr.fp
Asynchronous timer control
Table 2.
New Sample Projects
Filename Description
samples\activex\
cvi\cvidemo.prj
ActiveX Automation of LabWindows/CVI 5.0
to build and run projects
excel\exceldem.prj
ActiveX Automation of Microsoft Excel 97