Editing sequence parameters

[Sriharsha]

Hello All,

I am writing an application (C#) that read all the sequences in a sequence file.

1) For each sequence that is selected I want to display its parameters. I use the Sequence.Properties to get the PropertyObject for its properties. But to get a list of all the properties that only way I could do it was PropertyObject.GetXML. Is there any other way to get a list of all the parameters (name,type,value,flags)?

2) After this I was thinking of creating a dialog box for the user to enter the value for each parameter. I was wondering if there is already a standard dialog box available like in the TestStand app with which the user can enter the needed parameter values in the TS API?

3) Finally for the chosen sequence, I will call it from another temporary sequence. Basically my application allows the user to build a sequence from available sequences.

Thanks in advance for any help...

Sriharsha

[DWeiland]

Hi Sriharsha,

Since all of the properties of a particular PropertyObject are ALSO PropertyObjects, you can use functions like GetNumSubProperties in conjunction with the GetPropertyObject function. Combining a For loop as well as all of the other methods and properties of the PropertyObject class should get your desired results.

As for your second question, there really is no built in dialog for setting parameter values that can be used in the sequence. It certainly is possible, however, to create a dialog like that using the TestStand API in your programming language of choice. You can easily display variables as well as their values, and set those values from a code module that could be called in your Temporary sequence.

Hope this helps Sriharsha, let us know if you have any more questions.

[James_Grey]

Perhaps the Sequence Call Specify Module dialog box would be of use to you? Insert a sequence call step into sequence you generate. To display the module dialog, call Step.SpecifyModule.

[Sriharsha]

Thank you for the responses.

The problem I noticed with SpecifyModule API is the option that is supported for .NET is "SpecMod_ReadOnly" only, which means I cannot really use it. But I found it easy enough to bring a list of sequences in sequence and present all the parameters in it.

Thanks,
Harsha

[Sriharsha]

Thank you for the responses.

The problem I noticed with SpecifyModule API is the option that is supported for .NET is "SpecMod_ReadOnly" only, which means I cannot really use it. But I found it easy enough to bring a list of sequences in sequence and present all the parameters in it.

Thanks,
Harsha

[James_Grey]

All module types should implicitly support SpecifyModuleOptions.SpecMod_NoOptions.

I can understand how the documentation might be interpreted otherwise.