Make REPORT object oriented

[JuliaDawkins]

Because it's so much easier to write scripts for (like VIEW)!

[Brad_Turpin]

Hi Julia,

This is a VERY high priority on R&D's roadmap.  Unfortunately, it is also a very time consuming and dangerous feature.  If we started from scratch we would have to come up with some way to re-use existing TDR files and VBScripts, something like the AUT ==> VBS converter we added in DIAdem 8.0 when we introduced VBScript as the new scripting language.  There are other implementation options that could natively continue to support existing TDR files and Graph...() VBScript commands, but those approaches may restrict what we can accomplish.

I personally believe this will happen, but it's not something we can do quickly, both from an implementation and a testing perspective.  I use the non-object Graph...() functions too, and I've been asking for an object-oriented approach for REPORT for a long time now.  Know that I continue to lobby for this and that R&D agrees that it needs to be done.

Brad Turpin

DIAdem Product Support Engineer
National Instruments

[TCPlomp]

And expose the objects via .net!

[AndreasH_Ha]

Hello TCPlomp,

How would you like to use this API in .NET ? There is no specific .NET wrapper for DIAdem, but what you can do today is using the Active-X interface to launch DIAdem and execute scripts. Those scripts then can also use the REPORT API.

Do you think about using DIAdem as a pure report generation engine from .NET ?

Describing what you have in mind can help us to better understand the benefits you expect.

Andreas

[TCPlomp]

Yes using .net as an interface would allow us in LabVIEW to alter reports (add graphs, change channels) etc. so we can in a for us well-known environment adjust our reports.

For this purpose a Head-less DIADem would suffice.

Ton

[AndreasH_Ha]

Thanks for explaining. That makes a lot of sense.

[fotonik]

Hello,

My vote for "Make REPORT object oriented".

Best Regards,

Piotr

[Otmar]

This is in development, it will not be part of DIAdem 2011 but look for it in an upcoming version.

[Otmar]

This feature is available in the DIAdem 2012 BETA version (http://www.ni.com/beta). We would greatly appreciate everyone who was interested in this feature to test the 2012 Beta version and provide feedback before DIAdem 2012 releases.

[dietfons]

Feature was just released with DIAdem 2012.