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Since TS. 4.5 there is support for .net generics  

For me this was one of the biggest advancement of this release !

For future release it would we nice to have support in the foreach StepType to iterate

though the collection in state-of-art way.

 

At the moment you have to get the size and then use a for-loop

with indexing you desiered element. For doing this you have to use at least

two statements. With foreach and collection support no statement is neccessary.

 

Regards

 

Juergen

 

 

It would be nice to have the an API function to get the current progress stuff.

Allways when i am using the progress with PostUiMessage inside a sequence

I do not know what the current progress is. It would be nice to save it at start of sequence

now modify it with PostUiMessage

and on the end you are can able to set it old values again.

 

Regards

 

Juergen 

Hi,

 

Many times I need to run the MainSequence after a change somewhere in a subsequence. Because there is no shortcut key for that action (First go to the MainSequence then Execute->Run MainSequence) it is pretty time consuming. It would be nice to have that shortcut key in TestStand.

 

Best Regards,

Jick

When a 2d array is added to the report as table, you get the following table:

 

 

[0][0]  00

[0][1]  01

[1][0]  10

[1][1]  01

 

It would be better to have a table like this:

      [0] [1]

[0]  00  10

[1]  10  11

 

Currently this needs to be implememented in the stylesheet. But for a lot of users, this is a complex workaround.

 

 

It would be nice to have an option to resize an array and have the new elements contain the same properties/variables as the first element. The resize array dialog box has a checkbox for "Empty". How about one for "Auto populate from first index" or something?

 

I currently do a copy and paste into each new element, which is no fun.

 

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It would be nice having feature to update sequence call names automatically

 

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Why ?

When ever you create (or copy, too) a sequence call step

you have to rename it from "SequenceCall" to another name.

Mosttime the name of the Sequence is is in relation to the sequence.

For Example: You a have a Sequence "ABC" then the Step to it will be most "Call ABC"

So if there is a relation you should be able to rename it automatically.

 

Regards

 

Juergen

 

something Kekin proposed with the digital signature made me think, that it'd be nice if there was a  means to suppliment/append to header/footer of reports in general without having to do it with raw statement steps...  (and if this already exists I apologize for not checking first).

 

I think it'd be neat if there was an approach similar to the 'Additional Results' logic per step that's available.  In the 'ModifyReportHeader' callback, or in the report options somewhere, a user would be able to supply the data within a certain list of available options/allowable types, and the report generator/DLL would handle the formatting/whitespace such that it works for txt/html/xml headers without the user having to do the formatting themselves.  From my experience, most items added to headers consist of (1) supplimental string data, (2) supplimental numeric data (3) small images/logos(in the case of txt, maybe the alt text can be used, or just the path put into the file...?) 

 

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even if the new info was just tucked into the list/table before the failure chain block, it would be a nice time-saver for users who want a generic report but just have one more UUT detail that needs to show up in the header.

 

 

It would be nice to have the same debug feature like in Visual Studio

There is a possibility to run/execute to cursor's position.   

At the monent there is only "set next step to cursor" but this is not compareable with this feature.

 

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Well, I know could set another breakpoint and resume to it. But most times i will forget to delete it....

So why not this stuff ?

 

Regards

 

Juergen

 

 

We use VIPM to manage our reuse in LabVIEW, and it works wonderfully, but there's nothing for TestStand.  I'd like to be able to create and distribute packages with like functions, roll-back/forward project-based configurations, etc, within the TestStand development environment.  I know that a lot of stuff can be done manually, but it's monolithic - I need something that's modular.

I'd like to be able to specify the username, password, and local & remote paths by expression:

 

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It would be nice to beable to define a variable as constant.This could apply to Locals, FileGlobals, StationGlobals.

 

Once set mark it so as to be easily identifible as a Const.

 

The API would also need to include either a Property or Method so that one could determine if a variable is a Constant.

 

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When you set the Post Action On Pass | On Fail in a step to use Call sequence, the only ways to pass data to this sequence is either use some sort of Global (StationGlobals / FileGlobals) or use Locals with the setting "Propagate to SubSequence".

 

There should be a cleaner way and that is to beable to pass parameters as you do with SequenceCall step type.

 

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regards

Ray Farmer

I would like to see Shared or Separate FileGlobals available to all Types of Sequence File not just limited to Batch or Parallel Process Models.

 

Regards

Ray Farmer

Wouldn't be nice to beable to define one's own set of Expression Functions. This seems to be the one area of TestStand that cannot be customised. eg. Locals.name = NameOf(Step), Locals.IsValid = DoSomethingNotDefinedByDefaultFunction(Locals.name),.....(carry on with expression) Regards Ray Farmer