Chapter1 Installingand Configuring the SCXI-119X
SCXI-1190/1191/1192User Manual 1-2 ni.com
Installing the Software
You can controlthe SCXI-119Xprogrammatically in an application
development environment (ADE) using NI-SWITCH. The supported
ADEsinclude LabVIEW,LabWind ows/CVI, Visual Basic, and C or C++
environments. To install software for the SCXI-119X, complete the
following:
1. Insert your NI-SWITCH software CD into your CD-ROMdrive.
The installation windowshould ap pear automatically.
Note Ifthe installation w indowdoes not appear, double-click the My Computer icon on
yourPC desktop. Find the CD drive,and double-click it. In the CD directory, double-click
setup.exe.
The NI-SWITCH and NI-DMM installation window offersthr ee
choices:
•InstallNI-DMM —Choose this selection if you want to install
only the DMM software.
•InstallNI-SWITCH—Choose this selection if you want to install
only the switches software.
•InstallNI-SWITCH and N I-DMM—Choose this selection if
you wantto i nstall both the DMM and switches software.
2. Click the Install NI-SWITCH option.
3. Toinstall the instrument driver, VirtualBench, and application
developmentexamples, choose Programmatic and Interactive
Support.To install only the instrument driver files for VirtualBench,
choose Interactive Support Only.
Note ChoosingInteractive Support Only doesnot allow you to program the instrument
withany programming languages.
4. When installing NI-SWITCH, look at the Development
Environmentspanel.
•If you click the Advanced button on this panel, you can custom
installNational Instruments drivers such as NI-DAQ, NI-IVI, and
NI-VISA.
•If you do not wantto install certain drivers, click Advanced and
uncheck the driver(s)you do not want installed.
Ifa driver is already unchecked, your computer has the same driver or
anewer version of the driver already installed.