Bundling a vi for backwards compatibility

I am running 2 versions of Labview on different windows machines, 8.2.1 and 7.1. My problem is this:
I am talking to a custom bit of hardware over USB, I only have code to do this in LV 8.2.1. I want to get the same functionality in 7.1.
Is there anyway of exporting the data gathering sub vi from 8.2.1, such that it can be used by 7.1? I do not need to edit the code that talks to the hardware, I just want a block I can drop into 7.1 which grabs the data and passes it back to the 7.1 application?
(I have the full version which allows me to produce executables from 8.2.1.)
Luke
Luke_A_P

Hi Luke,
when you don't have access to LV8.0 and your vi bundle is rather small you can attach it here, someone will convert it for you.
Other option is to recode the vis in LV7.1 using screen prints of the LV8.2 vis
Message Edited by GerdW on 03-05-2008 01:05 PM
Best regards,
GerdW
CLAD, using 2009SP1 + LV2011SP1 + LV2014SP1 on WinXP+Win7+cRIO
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[svn:cairngorm3:] 16245: Adding back the moduleRootContext public getter for backward compatibility

Revision: 16245
Revision: 16245
Author:   [email protected]
Date:     2010-05-20 05:42:50 -0700 (Thu, 20 May 2010)
Log Message:
Adding back the moduleRootContext public getter for backward compatibility
Modified Paths:
    cairngorm3/trunk/libraries/Module/src/com/adobe/cairngorm/module/ModuleViewLoader.as
    cairngorm3/trunk/libraries/Module/src/com/adobe/cairngorm/module/ViewLoader.as

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