What are the real advantages of ultilizing Teststand test engine as opposed to stand-alone Labview programming

[Nokian]

The real problem that i am having is trying to keep open the VI that is called by Teststand for the user to enter values. Sometimes the window does not even appear to be open. Do i need to add delays.

[RayFarmer]

hi,

I guess you do have a while loop in your VI to allow for user input!!

It might be that the VI front panel is going behind the main panel. In which case you need to make the VI behave as a modal dialog. If you have TestStand 2 then there is an example ModalDialog in the examples folder. If you are still using Teststand 1.0.x then you can get the same example in the Resource Library. Do a search for Modal Dialog.

Hope this helps
Ray Farmer