calling applications (.exe) from teststand and passing data

[slugger]

hi

im quite new here but here goes.

im running a teststand sequence, and within that sequence i call an exe of a vi i built. basically its a front panel for a test engineer giving manual intervention on tests. now i can get this window up, but what i want to do is pass data front the GUI back into the teststand sequence and continue the teststand sequence dependant on what data i passed to it from the exe.

this exe would then pass data back to the exe. i.e. the sequence is in some sort of loop.

looking at labview i only saw the test data cluster for passing "out" data, and i got the distinct impression that this only occured at the end of the call.

anyone help with some advice here?

many thanks

[JonBowers]

Hi,

When you created the exe did you enable it as a ActiveX server? If so you can use ActiveX steps to comunicated with it. It would be easier however to call the VI from Teststand if that is possible as you can pass values directly too and from the VI connector pane through the LabVIEW adapter.