Determine test start

[bienieck]

How to determine, in custom OI, when test is started? I need to know when operator run entry point to disable some items in run time menu.

I tried with RunStateChanged Event Callback but it seemed to not working. Should I use UI Messages instead? In example StartFileExecution?

[~jiggawax~ · Accepted solution]

Just do a mouse down event on your Entry point buttons.

[bienieck]

Ok , but now how to determine end of test?

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[~jiggawax~]

The button press is a hack that is simple.  It is not the most elegant way.  There are 2 events that you can create callbacks for: UserMessage and UIMessageEvent.  Both work in the same way that they handle UI Messages.  The difference is that UserMessage handles UIMessages above 10000 (i.e. user message base).  However, if you create events for UIMessageEvent and have a callback that handles the messages you can look at the codes: UIMsg_EndExecution and UIMsg_StartExecution.  Both get sent by the engine whenever an execution starts or stops.  You can create cases for both events and look for the execution ID so that you know which one started and stopped.  It gets more difficult if you are doing multi-threaded models.  Because each socket is a different execution so you need to manage them all.

[bienieck · Accepted solution]

Finaly I used StartExecution and EndExecution Event Callbacks of Application Manager. This way I can simply, not only determine beginning of execution, but also check if it is execution that I want. I can simply filter front end callbacks and etc.