Guide to LabWindows/CVI Documentation

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NI LabWindows™/CVI™ 9.0 Help
October 2008

NI Part Number:
370051M-01

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Use the following information to help you find resources as you develop applications in LabWindows/CVI.

Resources for New Users
Resources for Upgrade Users
Overview Information
Advanced Topics
Context-Sensitive Help

Resources for New Users

The Getting Started with LabWindows/CVI manual provides a hands-on introduction to the LabWindows/CVI software. The manual contains exercises that help you become familiar with the LabWindows/CVI development environment and learn to build an application. You also will find an introduction to instrument control and data acquisition.
Read the LabWindows/CVI Readme for known issues and workarounds. Select Start»All Programs»National Instruments»LabWindows CVI x.x»LabWindows CVI x.x Readme, where x.x is the current version of LabWindows/CVI, to access this document.

Resources for Upgrade Users

Read the LabWindows/CVI Release Notes for an overview of the new features added to this version of LabWindows/CVI.
Read the LabWindows/CVI Readme for known issues and workarounds.

Overview Information

The following topics provide an overview of LabWindows/CVI.

Advanced Topics

For more in-depth information about advanced topics, refer to the following white papers, application notes, and manuals.

Note With Adobe Reader 7.0, you can search in multiple PDFs. For example, you can search all of the PDFs installed with LabWindows/CVI. To search multiple PDFs, complete the following steps:

Click the Search button in Adobe Acrobat to launch the Search panel.
In the Search panel, enter the word or phrase you want to search for.
In the Where would you like to search? section, enable the All PDF Documents in option and specify the folder you want to search. LabWindows/CVI PDFs are located in the CVIxx/bin folder.

Multithreading Overview

Programming for Multibyte Character Sets in LabWindows/CVI

Building ActiveX Servers in LabWindows/CVI

Building Networked Applications with the LabWindows/CVI TCP Support Library

Using LabWindows/CVI DLLs in LabVIEW Real-Time Applications

Instrument Driver Development

Context-Sensitive Help

You can access help in the following ways:

Press <F1> in a dialog box or when you highlight a menu to open the LabWindows/CVI Help to the topic describing the currently open menu or dialog box.
Right-click a menu and select Menu Help to view online help for the menu.
Click the Help button in dialog boxes to display the help topic associated with the dialog box.
In a Source window, press <F1> while your cursor is on LabWindows/CVI library function name to open the help for that function.
In Edit Control dialog boxes, press the question mark and click an option in the dialog box to view help for that option.

Using Context-Sensitive Help for Controls in User Interface Windows

You can access help for controls in the UI Editor in the following ways:

Right-click a control and select Control Help—LabWindows/CVI Help appears with help for that control.
Select two or more controls of the same subtype and right-click—LabWindows/CVI Help appears with help for that type of control.
Select a control and press <F1>—Help specific to that control appears.
Select two or more controls of the same subtype and press <F1>—LabWindows/CVI Help appears with help for that type of control.
Select a control or multiple controls of the same subtype and select Help»Control Help—Help for the selected control appears.