@Ray Farmer wrote:
jvh,
does this now work for you
http://forums.ni.com/t5/NI-TestStand/Tools-menu-broken/td-p/1155069
regards
Ray
Yes, the Tools menu problem is solved. After I figured it out I posted what I found and marked that as the solution. Have to say I don't care for the new way solutions are marked.
Back on this topic, the contents of the property file for arrays of containers as generated by the export tool seems somewhat tedious to parse and I think know I would be prone to making errors when adding, modifying or removing entries. My solution was to compose a set of generator sequences, one for each model.The main sequence doesn't do anything but has a set of subsequences. There is a subsequence for each model number. In each of these I open the variable pane and create or update the needed variables. Here in the variables pane they are nicely formatted and easy to see and update. Then I run the export tool for each of these subsequences and create sections that I can put in one limits file. This is acceptable as value changes and additions don't occur that often.So these sequences are kept in a generator directory and only run when updates occur. And I make a lot less errors this way.
The only disappointment is that although I can specify the start and stop tags it won't add to an existing file. I figured that was the reason for asking for start/stop tags. So why bother asking for the tags? I can type them in once in the file or once in the exporter.
Anyway now the values are in a format that anyone can easily parse.
Thanks for asking.
jvh
