An operator interface using XHTML forms and CGI

[kc64]

With XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, CGI, and AJAX support growing in popularity, I am wondering why there are no examples or solutions for an operator interface in TS.  It doesn't seem that it would be terribly difficult to start a web server, post a form, wait for a response from the web browser that the operator is using, and acting on the values returned in the form.

XHTML and CSS are designed specifically for presentation, albeit normally static (not animated), but JS can remedy that to some degree to show real-time dynamic data.

Does anyone know of an example solution out there?

[DRock]

kc64,

These are definitely growing in popularity and I'm sure that we will keep this fact in mind for future version releases of TestStand.  While we don't currently include any examples that ship with TestStand, you are welcome to submit suggestions for future product features by following the Feedback link seen at this link.  Anyone out there done work like this already?


Message Edited by Derrick S on 11-09-2007 02:51 PM

[kc64]

I found an example of what I described in my initial post.  I hope this is helpful to others.

http://forums.lavag.org/LabVIEW-AJAX-Asynchronous-Java-and-XML-t9447.html&p=38006

[DRock]

kc64,

Thanks a ton for your post!  I'm sure this will be greatly beneficial to the LabVIEW/TestStand community as these sort of projects continue to gain popularity and peak interest.  We appreciate it!

[Dennis_Knutson]

With the OI created with LabVIEW, wouldn't it be possible to simply use the web publishing tool?

[AllenP]

Unless something has changed recently, this wouldn't work since the web publishing tool does not support ActiveX controls.  I haven't tested this out in a few versions of LabVIEW, so maybe things are different now.

Allen P.
NI