TestStand Taskbar Jump List

[Pete.Dunc]

It would be very handy to have a jump list of recent/pinned files for TestStand.  This could also include simple tasks like creating a new sequence file.

Current:

Proposed:

[Pete.Dunc]

I was investigating how I could get a LabVIEW executable to have a jump list, and as it happens, it is just a single registry entry for recent file support.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Applications\<App.exe>\shell\Open\command

The command is a command line style string with %1 substituted for the file being launched.

Looking at this registry entry for SeqEdit.exe, when you open a ".seq" file it actually calls the following:

"C:\<Program Files>\National Instruments\TestStand <version>\BIN\UseExistingSeqEdit.exe" /useexisting "%1"

Rather than calling SeqEdit directly, there is a launcher executable, if you pin this to the task bar..

This gives a slightly annoying 'double-icon' and doesn't cover switching between versions, but hey - it's a start!