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Find yourself placing a Sequence Call step and trying to determine the appropriate value to enter for a numeric parameter called "Direction"? Tired of creating sequences with numeric parameters named like the following: "Direction_0_Up_1_Down_2_Left_3_Right"?
The solution is to support the creation of variables with enumerated type within TestStand. Enums could be created as custom variables and then used as wherever a self-documenting variable is required.
Enum type creation:
As seen from a Sequence Call step to a subsequence that uses an Enum as a parameter:
Recently ran into a problem when I was configuring a LabVIEW module that passed in/out clusters/types. I had a mistake in my code that the teststand data type was not configured to allow it to pass to LabVIEW clusters, but the problem was not as obvious as I thought it should be.
Here's what I had:
And when I click on the red checkmark "check expression" for "Cluster", it shows up as "No Errors". Everything looks great, right? Well, it isn't.
It's not until I expand "Cluster" to show the elements that I see that there are connectivity problems.
It would be nice if "Locals.mylocal" expression would turn RED and show a "check expression error" if any of it's children also had a connection problem (specifically in this case that the type in TestStand was not configured to allow passing to LabVIEW clusters). This way it would be a lot easier to see.
Even worse, this problem is NOT found by sequence analyzer -- it's left to be found at runtime.
I know this is all because I had a bug/mistake in my code, but it would be a lot easier to track down and fix if these changes were made.
It would be nice to have an option to resize an array and have the new elements contain the same properties/variables as the first element. The resize array dialog box has a checkbox for "Empty". How about one for "Auto populate from first index" or something?
I currently do a copy and paste into each new element, which is no fun.
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