05-10-2012 09:22 AM
Hello,
my question is about customized user interfaces for executions with the parallel model. At my current project, we use the parallel model with 4 test sockets and at the user interface we must have 2 string indicators for its execution, one that displays messages to the user and one that has the function of a streaming indicator that displays information throughout the test, showing also the time instances. So, in total 8 indicators that display in parallel information about the 4 independent executions. Till now, I managed to create the UI only for sequential mode, using 2 simple string indicators and sending messages from the TestStand to the strings through UI Messages. My problem is that I don't know how to implement this functionality for more test sockets.
Attached you can find images from the front panel and the blog diagram of the GUI as it looks now.
I am very new at TestStand (I know it only for the last month), so I expect that my question and the case description are not so clear, so please let me know if sth is poorly explained.
I would be grateful for any help.
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05-11-2012 09:44 AM
Basically, whenever you get a UI message related to an execution (e.g. UIMsg_StartExecution, UIMsg_Trace, etc.) you need to determine which testsocket the UIMessage applies to and then update the corresponding UI controls. One way to get the testsocket is as follows:
testsocketindex = uimsg.Thread.GetSequenceContext(0, frameId_Notused).AsPropertyObject().GetValNumber("RunState.TestSockets.MyIndex", 0)
Also, once you know where a particular execution goes, you can associate that execution's Id (i.e. Execution.Id property) with the control and just look at the execution Id instead.
Hope this helps,
-Doug
05-11-2012 12:58 PM
If you know C at all, it is simple to make the modification to the existing user interface. All the code is there. It would require you to also have a copy of LabWindows/CVI.
05-14-2012 02:18 AM
Thank you very much!
10-07-2016 05:58 AM
I have a similar kind of a problem, I want to implement the parallel execution of sequence along with the UI message.
can you please provide with an example for the implementation of this problem.
Thank You