Can't find VI Tester on Mac (direct download link?)

[trobertson79]

On my MacOS machine, VIPM can't find JKI VI Tester and all of the weblinks are vipm:// links and don't seem to work on MacOS.  Is there a plan old download link for vi tester .vip file?

[Jim Kring]

1 minute ago, trobertson79 said:

On my MacOS machine, VIPM can't find JKI VI Tester and all of the weblinks are vipm:// links and don't seem to work on MacOS.  Is there a plan old download link for vi tester .vip file?

Hi Thomas. I'll do my best to get you going.

First off, which version of LabVIEW are you using?

The issue could be related to the fact that the latest version of VIPM for Mac is an older version of VIPM.  And, yes, the vipm:// weblinks don't work on MacOS, unfortunately.

[trobertson79]

LabVIEW 2016 x64 MacOS

[Jim Kring]

OK, I just checked and the VI Tester package claims that it only works on Windows. I'm not sure why that's the case, or if it's true -- my thought is that this should work just fine on Mac and Linux. I've repackaged VI Tester such that it should install on Mac.

Can you try this package (link below)?
jki_labs_tool_vi_tester-2.0.0.285-2.ogp

Please let me know how this works for you.

[trobertson79]

It worked.  Only issue is when opening the visual tester it looks for some stuff from registry.llb (or dll I can't remember) and I have to ignore it, but the tester ran fine after ignoring those files.

[Jim Kring]

That's great!  If you mass compile (Save All) the code, does it continue to ask about registry.dll?  You may need to Ctrl+. to stop the VI Tester UI and then do a Save All. Or, you can mass compile the installation directory.

Thanks for letting me know.

[Jim Kring]

I’ve created an issue in github for tracking the fix for this: https://github.com/JKISoftware/JKI-VI-Tester/issues/12