Talk:DatLab

DatLab for Apple

Hi Mario, By the way, do you have any version of DataLab that can be installed in Apple Mac system? Or, do anyone from your company know how it get it works?

Hi Peter,

We develop DatLab only for Windows, because its the platform all our customers can live with and most customers have to live with. We are aware that it is not the best platform for scientific software (this might be Linux > Apple > Windows), but unfortunately we do not have a choice here. Even the ongoing software developing for one platform is a very major and cost intensive project for a company of our size, therefore we can not do this for multiple platforms. However, there were rumors that DatLab runs on a Windows emulator software for Apple. This was before we hat this wiki for collection of this kind of user feedback :-( . We do not have experiences in this on our own. I have only experience with running DatLab under a Windows emulator for Linux. This works always for "off line " data analysis and for some DatLab versions even for on-line data accumulation. Without being any sort of Apple expert, I would guess things might be similar for Apple based windows emulators.

Any experiences from customers in this regard would be highly welcome of this page

best greetings Mario --Fasching Mario 09:13, 22 February 2012 (CET)

Hi Mario, By the way, to open DatLab file in Mac system, I install a program called "VitualBox" which is free for basic version. With that, I can install windows in my Mac and therefore all other programs that can be installed in PC. I can open DatLab file without any problem. I am not sure if I can run DatLab to collect data in real-time. Never try it yet since I use other PC to run experiment.

Importing .csv data into a spreadsheet programs

• Make sure that DatLab and the Spreadsheet program use the same decimal separator. DatLab takes the character for the decimal separator form the windows system settings.
• It seems that with some recent versions of Excel importing a comma separated text file involves playing around with settings. For a problem free import after just double clicking the file, guided by a preview window, that allows to select the proper separation characters interactively, I actually tend to use Open (Libre) office nowadays. But of course the import is also possible in Excel, see this link to Microsoft.

--Fasching Mario 10:28, 3 May 2012 (CEST)