Which VI has exection thread?

[James_W]

We can get the top level VI using property nodes / call chain, and we can also determine the running state of any specific VI (given a path).

It would be really useful to know which VI was running as any point in time (without resorting to execution highlighting) - not really applicable to time critical applications of course.

Uses for this include:

1) the abilty to change a VI execution state from Modal to normal with custom created dropins - if required.

2) Automation - it would be really useful to retrofit projects with a tool/dropin for soak testing / debug which detected certain windows - normally these would be modal dialogs and entered data in them to allow the program to continue (I know these features can be built in at the start of a project, but dropping in later would be very powerful for pre-existing ones and allow the use of the NI dialogs.

3) simple debug - code is stuck, exection highlighting is not showing where. This would give the answer.

James

[Darren]

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