How many LabView licenses do we receive?

FIRST General Forum
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Does anyone know how many licenses we receive for LabView in the KOP?
We are trying to install on multiple machines at our school for our programmers, but I want to know the exact number of allowed licenses before I proceed.
Thanks

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As long as the computers are used by your FRC team, you can install it on as many as you need.

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One more question - Do you know if this year’s LabView is Mac compatible?
THANKS for the info!!

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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/

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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.

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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

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

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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.

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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/Installing_NetBeans_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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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.

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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?

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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