The past week having been largely eaten by the problem of getting a simple test-automation program to run on a second machine, I feel some cursing is in order. I'm about ready to consult a necromancer, if not to summon the author of this program then at least to disturb his rest.
We did find the source code... so far as LabVIEW can be said to use "source code". It's all Ancient Egyptian to me*. But! I successfully defanged the apparent copy protection. Only the code still doesn't run right on any but the original PC. The failure mode has changed, but it doesn't work.
Now I'm trying to poke at it using student edition LabVIEW (don't worry, we'll compile for delivery using the fully-licensed version). And: I can poke at the blocks, and kinda-sorta see what's going on, after a fashion... but I can't run the sucker, because the library topology has gone non-Euclidean or something. Totally obscure error message, to which the solution might be either "keep all the source files in exactly their original locations, and don't even think about working on a copy of the project" or "re-install LabVIEW and try again."
* 𓀜𓂗50-46-5D-90-76-BD𓂀𓍝𓂶"X < 0 ? 2"𓁸𓂏𓃫; yeah, that makes perfect sense.
Hmmm: Looking at this page on my phone, I see only the latin-alphabet text. If the footnote lacks hieroglyphics, you may not have a full set of Unicode on your computer. Or something.
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