September 2017
This file contains important information about LabVIEW 2017 Service Pack 1 (SP1) for macOS, including system requirements, installation instructions, known issues, and a partial list of bugs fixed. LabVIEW 2017 SP1 for macOS is available only in 64-bit.
Refer to the NI website for the latest information about LabVIEW.
Refer to the labview/readme directory for readme files about LabVIEW add-ons, such as modules and toolkits.
Product Security and Critical Updates
Supported Modules and Toolkits
LabVIEW 2017 SP1 for macOS has the following requirements:
| macOS | 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 | macOS 10.11, 10.12, or 10.13 | macOS 10.11, 10.12, or 10.13 |
| 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 |
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Complete the following steps to install and activate LabVIEW for macOS.
Are you installing LabVIEW for the first time? Insert the LabVIEW installation media and follow the onscreen instructions to install LabVIEW. To omit some of these files, click Customize on the Installation Type page.
To install LabVIEW modules and toolkits, refer to the readme of each product for installation instructions. The LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit installs with the LabVIEW Professional Development System for macOS.
You can install NI device drivers from ni.com/macdrivers.
Are you upgrading from a previous version of LabVIEW? Refer to the LabVIEW Upgrade Notes for information about protecting existing VIs and projects before installing a new version of LabVIEW, as well as upgrade and compatibility issues and a complete list of new features in LabVIEW 2017.
Note Starting from 2017, LabVIEW supports backward compatibility for the LabVIEW Run-Time Engine. Versions of LabVIEW later than 2017 can load binaries and VIs built with LabVIEW 2017 without recompiling. This improvement applies to stand-alone applications (EXEs), shared libraries (DLLs), and packed project libraries.
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.
In LabVIEW 2017 SP1, malleable VIs can adapt to input classes. A malleable VI that calls a method of class A accepts data of unrelated classes as long as the class has a public method with the same name, connector pane pattern, and terminal direction as the method of class A that the malleable VI calls. The malleable VI adapts to the input class by replacing the call to the method of class A with a call to the public method in the input class, if such a method exists.
You can think of this adaptability of a malleable VI as defining an interface of method calls with method name, connector pane pattern, and terminal direction. The malleable VI accepts data of any class that fulfills the interface of method calls, which allows you to use one malleable VI to perform operations on data of unrelated classes or implement multiple interfaces defined by different malleable VIs on one class.
Refer to the labview\examples\Malleable VIs\Class Adaptation\Malleable VIs - Class Adaptation.lvproj for an example of using malleable VIs to define interfaces of method calls.
LabVIEW 2017 SP1 for macOS supports the following modules and toolkits.
1 The Control Design and Simulation Module does not support the System Identification VIs, System Identification Assistant, and Control Design Assistant.
2 The MathScript RT Module does not support the libraries class of MathScript RT Module functions.
Refer to the readme of each product for more information about system requirements, installation instructions, and activation.
LabVIEW 2017 SP1 for macOS supports the following drivers. To use hardware with LabVIEW 2017 SP1, install the latest version of the driver for the device.
Refer to the readme of each driver for more information about system requirements and installation instructions.
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 2017 and LabVIEW 2017 SP1.
The following items are the IDs and titles of a subset of issues fixed in LabVIEW 2017 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 |
|---|---|
| 604133 | LabVIEW can crash when executing a Value (Signaling) property on a generic subpanel reference. |
| 607329 | Merged signals do not have correct names in output file of Write to Measurement File express VI. |
| 608412 | In some cases, attempting to plot multiple large datasets on an XY graph can result in LabVIEW hanging. |
| 618044 | In rare cases, updating a type definition file may cause instances of the typedef to revert to default data. |
| 620145 | Using a Formula Node with a large number of equations can cause LabVIEW to crash. |
| 622429 | On the first execution of LabVIEW, using the Edit Tree Items: Move Item method causes a crash. |
| 623945 | On Mac OS X, selecting some of the properties and methods in the Class Browser can cause LabVIEW to crash. |
| 627910 | Large projects may have extended save times. |
| 631707 | On Mac OS X, cleaning up an empty block diagram will shrink the window size. |
| 639416 | LabVIEW-built assemblies with array parameters cannot be called from Visual Studio. |
| 640139 | Updating a type definition that is used in dynamic event registration leads to incorrect behavior. |
| 640344 | A Stream channel writer can be wired to a Lossy Stream channel writer without breaking the wire. |
| 640873 | Callers of malleable VIs will sometimes show a document modification and prompt to save when the VI has not changed. |
| 649615 | Dragging a node with a channel wire connection into or out of a structure can rewire incorrectly. |
| 649837 | Crash using Actor Framework Message Maker after first message creation fails because of an already-existing file on disk. |
| 649952 | In very rare situations, LabVIEW can crash while unflattening data. |
| 650556 | Message Channel acks can unblock improperly. |
| 651326 | Double-clicking a reentrant subVI in LabVIEW 2017 always opens the master VI, never the clone. |
| 653033 | In certain cases, updating a numeric member of a cluster will not update the cluster. |
| 653897 | Make LabVIEW more robust when presented with corrupted resource files. |
| 654700 | Read-only DVR can occasionally return the wrong value. |
| 654714 | Scripted channel endpoint VIs show up on the Recent Files list in the Getting Started Window. |
| 656295 | In some cases, using the Alignment tool on wires can cause a LabVIEW crash. |
| 656516 | Some VIs that are runnable in LabVIEW 2015 and earlier will report broken in LabVIEW 2016 and later. |
| 657776 | Creating a VI for Data Member Access can crash LabVIEW. |
| 658033 | In the Rearrange Cases dialog for Event Structure frames, the "Sort" button doesn't sort alphabetically. |
| 658387 | Sometimes a terminal with a coercion dot will be displayed as the wrong data type in Context Help. |
| 658923 | Custom Probes for LabVIEW classes have erratic block diagram behavior when live drag is enabled. |
| 660055 | Comparison primitives with waveform as input in "Compare Aggregate" mode can cause a LabVIEW crash at runtime. |
Refer to the LabVIEW Help, accessible by selecting Help»LabVIEW Help from LabVIEW, for information about LabVIEW 2017 SP1.
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