I recently installed PAS and polarization navigator (version 3.305) on a new Windows 7 machine and I am having trouble getting LabVIEW (version 2017) to work with the instrument. On my old machine, I was using the old LV Vi's contained in the MIP.LLB library. Now, apparently they are unsupported, so I am trying to use the ActiveX libraries. I've opened up the example VI - N778xSOP.vi in the folder C:\Program Files\Keysight\Photonic Application Suite\Examples\DemoLabView8.5 which is supposed to use AgN778xLib.IAgN778x for automation. The problem is (1) upon opening, it says that library doesn't exist and (2) if I point the automation open to the DLL AgN778xLib.dll (in C:\Program Files\Keysight\Photonic Application Suite\bin), I get an error saying the DLL is not registered. So, I registered the DLL with Windows and I still get the same error.
Any help is appreciated. I wish the older VI's were still usable since they always worked fine. Any help is appreciated.
Bob
Hello Bob,
The N778xB User Guide now advises to not reference the dll files directly but to use the AgServerN778x references, which are exe files. This allows the same file to be used for either 32 or 64 bit programming environments. Otherwise you would need to use the version with PAS 3.x for 64 bit Labview or PAS 2.x for 32 bit Labview. Both are still available for installation on the Package Manager too.
I think page 145 in the UG installed with 3.305 has the right details.
Mike