Altering the appearance of Parallel UUT Dialog

[Dec]

Hi all

I was hoping someone might be able to help answer a TestStand related question. I am in the process of putting together an ATE system. For simplicity and speed of implementation we have decided to use the unmodified parallel process model with callbacks. The system will test up to 3 different types of UUT’s in parallel.

Depending on a user selection (made in the ProcessSetup callback) any combination of the 3 UUT types could be selected to run.

The system functions perfectly but we were hoping there was a simple way of altering the Parallel UUT Dialog to make the final application more intuitive.

Would any of the following be possible without the need to alter Modelsupport2.dll??

1. Alter the test socket label from 0,1 or 2 to text that would reflect the UUT type being tested in each socket?
2.  Alter the Status Message to reflect the UUT type being tested?
3. Any other suggestions.

I am running under windows XP, the version of TestStand in use is 3.5. I am programming with LabVIEW 7.1 I have no experience with C,  hence altering the Modelsupport2.dll is not a realistic option.

If anyone has any suggestion of how I could make my application more intuitive please respond.

T.I.A

Declan

[RayFarmer]

Hi,

You will have to modify Modelsupport2.dll to achieve what you are after.

They seem relatively minor changes.

How would you make this new information available for the dialog to display?

Regards

Ray Farmer

[Dennis_Knutson]

Ray is correct that the changes to modelsupport2 are fairly simple but you would need to buy CVI in order to do this. I have made some of the same changes. I do almost all of my work in LabVIEW but I also have a CVI license so it was no big deal to me. You could consider writing your own parallel dialog in LabVIEW. For the batch model, I needed a different serial number entry and I wrote that in LabVIEW. It was not an entire replacement of modelsupport2. I just did a custom serial number entry VI and a custom results display VI and put them in the PreBatch and PostBatch callbacks. This was all pretty simple and the parallel mode would be more difficult but it could be done.

[penguinman23]

Actually, you dont have to modify the model suport dll.

You can create your own dll, or labview vi that uses a teststand reference to display results and launch results in a results viewer (internet explorer)

I hope to find an example of this using Labview (no luck so far).

(The post batch is a scrolling window, that the user must scroll to see results if there are more than five UUTs in a batch. This is unacceptable).