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dotNet_to_LabW

Dark theme (background) color for TestStand and MAX

Status: Under Consideration Submitted by Member on 05-17-2019 06:37 AM 16 Comment

Hello,

Many SW-Tool providers have realized that how comfortable it is for a programmeruser to work with dark backgrounds. Microsoft did it in 2013 for visual studio and now browser companies are doing the same. Unfortunately, I can Change background color of MAX and TestStand. This makes longer working painful for eyes.

 

An example of such a bakground is attached with the message.

 

Such a feature will improve ergonomics.

 

Thank you

Regards

Ricky

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MaximeR

Review all idea Exchange and Update status

Status: Under Consideration Submitted by Active Participant Active Participant on 07-11-2023 08:11 AM 11 Comment

I think it can a be a really good idea to review and give feedback on all Idea exchange.

 

You ask us to give feedback but you don't finish the loop.

 

Some idea are mark as new for many years now...

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asilos

Add Git to supported source code control providers

Status: Under Consideration Submitted by Member on 05-29-2019 12:36 PM 3 Comment

Git would be a valuable addition to be made to the source code control providers that you have already since it is widely used.

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paloff

Graphical distinguishing of menues, pains, borders, icons etc in Teststand sequence Editor

Status: Under Consideration Submitted by Member on 02-05-2024 01:01 AM 3 Comment

I just switched from TS2019 to TS2023. I am not finding a way to configure the TS editor, witch is a hard to orientate flash of white and black screen. The color separation of the different panes, icons, step colors, fields  and  menues is not given and there are no clearly visible frames distinguished by backcolors. Working with this new GUI is tedious and not suitable, not suporting a rapid development idea. The attention of development shold be by the code and not by  the absorbing search and brain consuming editor.  How can I use the old 2019 condition gain? Could you please change this in the NEXT Teststand version?

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CyGa

Re-write LabVIEW code for Full UI and Simple UI

Status: Under Consideration Submitted by Active Participant Active Participant on 02-20-2013 05:01 AM 15 Comment

Often working with Full Featured UI and Simple UI codes to create custom interfaces for TS, I noticed that the versions shipped with LV2012 are full of deprecated functions.

Also, most of their implementation go against good LV coding rules.

 

Re-writing them could be a great idea !

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CyGa

Create a TestStand Champion title

Status: Under Consideration Submitted by Active Participant Active Participant on 05-24-2018 08:44 AM 2 Comment

Hi,

There is a LabVIEW Champion title... so why not a TestStand Champion title ?!

I think it would make a lot of sense !

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warren_scott

Add tree structure to data type menu

Status: Under Consideration Submitted by Active Participant on 06-04-2012 12:34 PM 5 Comment

Do you ever have too many custom data types, and it looks something like this

datatype_list.png

This just really sucks when you have 100's of data types to go through.  My list is currently 150 long.  That's a lot of clicking on that little arrow at the bottom.

 

How about something like this:

 

datatype_menu.png

 

Go through and reorganize your types 

<< insert some whiz-bang graphical editor here that allows dragging/dropping of types into groups -- none of this "move up in list" "move down in list" stuff that we are doing now to move step types in/out of groups >>

 

Now when you go to insert a type, you see a tree structure and all your types are organized

datatypes_treelist.png

 

This would be so much easier to find the type I want.

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kevin.key

VeriStand Adapter

Status: Under Consideration Submitted by Member on 11-07-2011 09:03 AM 4 Comment

It would be nice to integrate VeriStand into TestStand with a VeriStand Adapter.

 

veristand adapter.png

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This would make developing with TestStand and VeriStand much easier. The adapter would provide a lot of the VeriStand .Net api natively to testand:

 

- Deploy a system

- Set/Get Channel(s)

- Stimulus Profiles

- etc.

 

The adapter would be especially nice for integrating the new Stimulus Profiles in VeriStand 2011. It would allow for you to create the Stimulus Profile sequence and the Real-Time sequence. The Real-Time sequences would only be able to use a subset of TestStand steps, and would have to be different than a normal TestStand sequence because they are executed by the VeriStand engine, but the Stimulus Profile sequence could be a normal TestStand sequence.

 

The integration of the Stimulus Profiles would leverage a lot of features TestStand already has like source control, requirements, reporting, etc. Also, it would just give the user a much more intuitive experience when using the two together. Their test development would be centralized in TestStand instead of having to switch between the two different editors. It would also give better access to the parameters being passed into the Real-Time sequences at the TestStand level.

 

There are probably more benefits that could be realized by integrating TestStand and VeriStand, and this is a feature I would love to see as a user of both TestStand and VeriStand.

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