Offline Results Processing Utility: Command line arguments for Improved UI Behavior

[Mr._Jim]

Hello,

With the strongest possible emphasis I would like to propose the following new command line arguments for the ORPU. These are desperately needed.

1. /minimized    Launch ORPU truly minimized without having it steal window focus.
2. /no-splash    Launch ORPU without splash screen
3. /silent           Launch ORPU in the tray, without a splash screen and without having it steal window focus.

This is a profoundly useful tool and we are adopting it on dozens of stations around the world... but not having these improvements is really frustrating for operators and these improvements appear to be low hanging fruit. No thanks, I don't want to recompile the ORPU for several very good reasons.

Please help us out by carefully considering the daily use cases for this tool.

References:

https://forums.ni.com/t5/NI-TestStand/How-do-I-get-the-TestStand-Splash-Screen-to-not-appear-when-I/...

https://www.ni.com/docs/en-US/bundle/teststand-api-reference/page/tsref/using-command-line-arguments...

Feature request 523524

[Mr._Jim]

Slight clarification - the "tray" argument does what it's supposed to and works nicely, provided that the ORPU isn't already running.

If it's already running, the "tray" argument is ignored and the window goes to foreground. Therefore I like the "tray" argument but I wished it worked in all contexts. My workaround for now is to use .NET to determine if the process is running.