Hiding the ORPU

[abelino]

Hi everyone!

I'm making a change in my system in order to process results through the ORPU, but, every time UUT test is initiated, the ORPU window is poped up, this creates confusion to the operator. So I'm looking a way to hide this window so it works in the background or windows tray without operator knowledge. I have the windows tray option enabled, and it indeed is started that way, but as mentioned before, at the first UUT run, it appears on the screen.

Also, I'm planning on adding a ORPU.exe /process-profiles "Profile 1" to the sequence in order to periodically process results that may left behind (after a while the file cannot be processed on the ORPU, an error is raised and it is never processed even with the connection restored).

Thanks for your help.

Best Regards.

Abel C.

[Adam_S]

Hi Abel,

I'm looking into some possible ways to keep the ORPU hidden in the background, but you might also look at this post:

http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/crawl_message?board.id=330&message.id=49367

To clarify, are you using this utility to process the results during execution?  And if so, why did you make the choice to use the utility rather than the online Result Processing of TestStand?

[Corey.Rotunno]

Abel,

  I had the same issue. I resolved this by NOT having the ORPU start automatically and instead call it from TestStand directly. By doing this you can tell it to start minimized and exit when done.

  I have attached a sequence that does this, it has a Parameter string that is the ORPU profile name you would like to run and a boolean that tells ORPU to run minimized or not. Of course you are going to get a warning/error because a MainSequence should not have those parameters, but in my application it is actually a subsequence.

Also see http://zone.ni.com/reference/en-XX/help/370052M-01/tsref/infotopics/offline_processing_utility_comma...

[abelino]

Hi Mada_17 and Corey.Rotunno!

Sorry for the late response, but a lot had happen since then. I found a thread regarding a similar issue with the splashscreen of the ORPU, where in order to fix the issue the source code of the ORPU was modified, so, I dig a quite bit into the code looking for the proper place to modify it in order to fix my issue, and also, I had to work it out with the IT group in order to compile the code through several iterations, but at the end, I was able to fix the issue.

http://forums.ni.com/t5/NI-TestStand/How-do-I-get-the-TestStand-Splash-Screen-to-not-appear-when-I/m...

I appreciate your help and comments, attached the modified source code and the compiled utility for your reference.

Thanks and Best Regards.

Abel