Display Non-Modal Dialog with NI controls from TestStand

[tonye]

I am trying to create a non-modal dialog box with NI Controls on it (like slides and knobs). TestStand will display and update this dialog while a very long test is running (hence the non-modal). A few years ago when I did this I used an ATL/COM DLL project in VC++ 6.0 to accomplish this. I am now using VC++ .NET and I was wondering if anyone has some advice on what type of DLL project I can use to accompish this. I'd rather it be an MFC DLL than ATL/COM but I can't remember if that's possible.

Thanks,
~tony

[bilalD]

The Measurement Studio user interface controls are based on MFC, so you can definelty use them in an MFC dll. VC.NET (2002 and 2003) still has MFC support (MFC 7.1), so you should not see too much difference with the way you would have developed this previously. To get the custom CNi classes though , you would need Measurement Studio 7.0, since these classes have been optimized for development in the newer enviornment.

Bilal Durrani
NI

[tonye]

Do you know of any examples that have a non-modal dialog created in VC++ with NI Controls that get called by TestStand?