How many LabView licenses do we receive?

[MagiChau]

According to NI's website it is compatible with Windows, Mac, and Linux.
http://www.ni.com/labview/whatis/multiple-targets/
http://www.ni.com/labview/os-support/

[wilsonmw04]

Originally Posted by ZonChau

According to NI's website it is compatible with Windows, Mac, and Linux.
http://www.ni.com/labview/whatis/multiple-targets/
http://www.ni.com/labview/os-support/

LV itself is compatible with Macs, but I think you have to use a windows machine to download code to the FRC robot. Sadly, we are a Mac school school system with the only machine that runs Windows XP.

[lgriffith21]

We are in the same "boat." All Macs..

But can you "program" on the macs and then send to a Windows machine for upload to the robot? Are they compatible when you use a thumbdrive or equivalent to transfer the specific program?

THANKS

[wilsonmw04]

We use bootcamp and do all things FRC on the Windows side of the machine.

I would think that code is code is code. One project on a Mac should open and be usable as long as both have the FRC libraries.

[Alan Anderson]

You can't build for a Real-Time target on a Macintosh. Last year, at least, I think some of the necessary framework files for even opening a robot project were available only in (non-Mac-compatible) .dll form. You can ignore the missing files and open a project to look at it, but I'm not going to offer any hope that you'll be able to make working changes.

[wilsonmw04]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

You can't build for a Real-Time target on a Macintosh. Last year, at least, I think some of the necessary framework files for even opening a robot project were available only in (non-Mac-compatible) .dll form. You can ignore the missing files and open a project to look at it, but I'm not going to offer any hope that you'll be able to make working changes.

That's been our experience as well. That's why we use the windows side of our machine. Can you make the VI's on the mac and swap them over to the Windows machine to make the build?

[Greg McKaskle]

I also own a mac laptop, and even though it isn't ideal, Parallels has worked well for developing, vision, deploying to the robot. The only issue I have is the battery life and occasionally having to modify the VM networking in order to have bridged networking.

Greg McKaskle

[ebarker]

Originally Posted by wilsonmw04

LV itself is compatible with Macs, but I think you have to use a windows machine to download code to the FRC robot. Sadly, we are a Mac school school system with the only machine that runs Windows XP.

There is an easy solution.

Step 1: Use the Classmate as a Driver Station, and as a cRrio imaging tool.

Step 2: Install Netbeans / Java as your development environment using this procedure ( it is for windows, feel free to adjust for Mac ) http://kellrobotics.org/files/Instal...ns_For_FRC.pdf

It requires you to program in Java but it is a Mac friendly way to do things.

EDIT: arrgh

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[NetPlanet]

Originally Posted by ZonChau

According to NI's website it is compatible with Windows, Mac, and Linux.
http://www.ni.com/labview/whatis/multiple-targets/
http://www.ni.com/labview/os-support/

But would we be able to install the updates for the default code and WPILib vi's, on non-windows machines?