USING THE NEW v3 DRIVERS WITH LABVIEW

The following diagrams illustrate the way you would use LabView 8.2 to work with the device driver.


Image 1: Selecting the LabView "Automation Open" function.
 


Image 2: Using the Automation Open context sensitive menus to browse for an ActiveX driver.
 


Image 3: Selecting a driver. Select the driver you want to use.
 


Image 4: Select the applicable Object in the Objects box.
 


Image 5:  You are now ready to add driver functions.

Example VI showing open, read temperature and close. Additional code added to show how you can view or even generate an error.