iannicholson

So here's the story behind my previous statement. Last night I opened LabVIEW 2021 (21.0.1f2) to investigate a problem someone was having with software we provide for machines we sell. For reasons I can't currently explain, I was presented with a dialog listing several VIs (19 I think) and the following message for each one: OpenG Libraries support for LabVIEW 2021 is missing and is referenced by the following VIs This is very strange because I know I updated the OpenG Libraries months ago (possibly nearly a year ago) and have never had this come up before. Once I opened my main VI, I found that it was broken, and drilling-down into the sub showed that multiple VIs were broken (including the GCraftsman JSON Object Serialization library I briefly used but never got back to. I spent about 4 hours researching why this would happen. I found several references to the updates to the OpenG libraries, and some recommending downgrading the libraries to the previous versions (version 4.x and 5.x). I tried this, but ended up with different errors. Eventually I realized I hadn't yet restarted LabVIEW after the downgrade, so I chalk the new errors up to that. But after restarting, then downgrading and re-upgrading to version 6.x of OpenG, suddenly the problem is now resolved. My frustration in the earlier comment was that this update was going to prevent me from using GCraftsman's library specifically, due to the fact that I can't find any recent info from the developer anymore. This led me to worry for other users of libraries that can't be fixed after such a change. It appears this was a false alarm since my code now runs fine; I guess reinstalling the OpenG libraries did the trick, but I have no idea why this was needed. The recompile triggered after the update seems to be working as intended even if it didn't originally work at all for me? Anyway, sorry for the disruption.

What about purchased libraries that depend on OpenG, and may or may not be maintained anymore? I guess I'll have to discontinue using these libraries if I need to upgrade OpenG 😔

Better late than never! Thanks for working on this.

Any chance you were able to fix the error? This package still doesn't install properly (in VIPM it claims there is a missing dependency, but it doesn't find one to install).

0_o, Thanks for the info, but I'm not sure that helps. This is occurring before the Welcome screen; isn't that what skipNavigatorDialog=True would suppress? Also, this apparently is a different dialog from that controlled by "Show the login prompt at LabVIEW Startup time", as I get an additional login dialog with that option checked

crelf, Thanks for the answer, but I already have that unchecked. Please see the screenshots below:

LabVIEW 2009 is asking me to log in, with only one user. LabVIEW 8.6 did not do this. Is there a way to disable the dialog? Or is it standard behavior starting with 2009? It is a minor annoyance, but when drop through clicks are disabled, it is tricky to get this dialog to let me past.

JG, I'm embarrassed; I didn't realize you were the last poster on the thread!

JG, Sorry, I got a notification of your post as I was submitting my update. Check my edit above! Thanks though!

*SEE EDIT BELOW* I see that MGI has been updating their (excellent, btw) freeware VI library (http://www.mooregood...abViewStuff.htm). Unfortunately, it looks as though they are publishing versions saved in the newest LabVIEW versions, since the 3.8-10 version doesn't want to install in VIPM for me. This presents me with a problem. I have customers on executables built with 8.6.1, and it is not ideal for me to ask anyone who updates to download the 2009 RTE as well (don't even have 2010 yet). Does anyone have the latest MGI VIs saved in LabVIEW 8.6.1? If nobody has them available, I can ask MGI, but I don't want to ask too much of them Thanks to anyone who can help. *EDIT* I apologize to MGI, but apparently there is a bug in VIPM that may cause this (can be caused by read-only files in the package, among other possibilities). I had the latest two versions on my hard drive, so I tried opening both at the same time, and I was able to install the latest one without trouble. Descriptions here: http://forums.jkisoft.com/index.php?showtopic=1443 and here: http://forums.jkisoft.com/index.php?showtopic=1465.

Aristos, I recorded a video with Jing. I found out while doing this that if you mouse over the newly displayed context menu (after a right-click), it apparently clears the selection request. If you don't mouseover the context menu, you get the selection rectangle. Also, this only happens on actual context menus, not tool menus. Thanks, -Ian LabVIEW_RightClickBug.swf UPDATE: Posted at NI.com here: http://forums.ni.com...le/td-p/1232057

Aristos, Thanks for your input here. I am running Windows XP SP3 on a laptop. I have the OpenG package installed and MGI VIs, but not much else regarding third-party addons. The problem is repeatable every time for me.

So you are saying you don't have the "f1" fix installed? (To fix the multiple object Properties page bug)

Is anybody running LabVIEW 2010? Do you have this issue as well?