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December 2015
This file contains important information about LabVIEW 2015 Service Pack 1 (SP1) for OS X, including system requirements, installation instructions, known issues, and a partial list of bugs fixed for LabVIEW 2015 SP1.
Refer to the NI website for the latest information about LabVIEW 2015 SP1.
Refer to the labview/readme directory for readme files about LabVIEW add-ons, such as modules and toolkits.
Product Security and Critical Updates
LabVIEW 2015 SP1 for OS X has the following requirements:
| OS X | Run-Time Engine | Development Environment |
|---|---|---|
| Processor | Intel-based processor | Intel-based processor |
| RAM | 256 MB | 2 GB |
| Screen Resolution | 1024 x 768 pixels | 1024 x 768 pixels |
| Operating System | OS X 10.9, 10.10, or 10.11 | OS X 10.9, 10.10, or 10.11 |
| Disk Space | 257 MB | 1.4 GB for the complete installation |
| Temporary Files Directory | N/A | LabVIEW uses a directory for storing temporary files. NI recommends that you have several megabytes of disk space available for this temporary directory. |
| File System | Case-insensitive | Case-insensitive |
| Note NI recommends that you use Firefox 10.0 or later or Safari 6.0 or later to view the LabVIEW Help. | ||
Depending on whether you are installing LabVIEW for the first time or upgrading from a previous version, refer to one of the following documents for information about installing LabVIEW:
You can access the LabVIEW Installation Guide and the LabVIEW Upgrade Notes at ni.com as well as on the installation media.
Note If you purchased this product with an NI Software Suite or NI Product Bundle, use the installation media that shipped with your purchase to install this product.
Visit ni.com/security for security information about NI products. Visit ni.com/critical-updates for information about critical updates from NI.
You can access the software and documentation known issues list online. Refer to the NI website for an up-to-date list of known issues in LabVIEW 2015 and LabVIEW 2015 SP1.
LabVIEW 2015 SP1 (64-bit) for OS X supports a limited number of NI drivers, modules, and toolkits. Refer to the NI Product Compatibility for LabVIEW (64-bit) for Mac OS X support document at ni.com for more information.
The following list contains additional changes to LabVIEW that are not included in the LabVIEW Help, the LabVIEW Upgrade Notes, or both:
The following items are the IDs and titles of a subset of issues fixed in LabVIEW 2015 SP1. This is not an exhaustive list of issues fixed in the current version of LabVIEW. If you have a CAR ID, you can search this list to validate that the issue has been fixed.
| ID | Fixed Issue |
|---|---|
| 515054 | Icon transparency of VIs is not maintained when building a Source Distribution |
| 530816 | In rare cases, LabVIEW may crash when saving the results of the Compare VI Hierarchies tool when used on a reentrant VI |
| 530928 | Internal warning when saving a VI with a Fixed-Point datatype for LabVIEW 8.2 or earlier |
| 534471 | When building a packed project library containing classes, changes in class inheritance would not propagate to calling VIs |
| 537078 | Case Structure auto-complete functions incorrectly when used with Enum Controls in LabVIEW 2015 |
| 537780 | Unregistering and re-registering an event while an event callback VI is running may crash LabVIEW when the callback VI returns |
| 538332 | Make Space/Remove Space does not work when Bookmark Manager is open and there is a bookmark in the VI |
| 540922 | Channel Wires are incompatible with Control & Simulation Loop tunnels |
| 543507 | DAbort 0x2CADF6E3 caused by scrolling the mouse wheel within an array |
| 544852 | In some cases, LabVIEW 2015 creates a minor internal warning when shrinking diagrams |
| 545175 | In some cases, using Sort 1D Array and Array Max & Min or Less Than on a cluster would report incorrect data |
| 546121 | Ctrl-A, then Delete does not delete the icon in the Icon Editor in LabVIEW 2015 |
Refer to the LabVIEW Help, accessible by selecting Help»LabVIEW Help from LabVIEW, for information about LabVIEW 2015 SP1.
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