Uh, new to this forum, all the topics seem way to specific for my question.
I am a TV technician, and today my boss told me to go future proof the spectrum computers. Turns out this is a windows 2000 machine running custom software to talk to 2 Advantest r3131 analyzers via a GPIB-enet 100.
The custom software seems to be using data from an .ini to send parameters to the analyzer, and then outputting a trace (4 actually, but now we only need 2) on the computer. However, if i just run the .exe on another machine it complains about "initialize.vi->NameOfProgram.vi" and talking about missing components. The way i am guessing at this is it is missing some sort of library? probably this library would be installed with the program (15 years ago and then we threw away the disk...). i have tried installing any drivers i could find, including for the gpib device, but these are for win7 on a win 7 machine. is that why it can't find what it is looking for?
Fine. Great. Someone was very clever 15 years ago. If, Today, i want to show the trace on my screen, and i have a r3131 and a GPIB-enet 100, can i do this simply? Or do i need to re-write our custom software (i cannot do this, i am Waaay to dumb).
What would you guys do if you wanted to use my equipment to see a trace on a windows computer? The program used to make it show 3 traces from one machine, but i dont even need that, really just need to show the current trace and i can set all my parameters on the analyzer with my fingers.
Please, let me know if this is easy or crazy hard, and maybe direct me to the correct sub-forum. thanks, have a great day.