How can I connect the TestStand 30 UI controls to a remote instance?

[Aaron Stibich]

I have been playing with the TestStand 30 UI controls (which I love), and I can't see a way to connect them to a remote instance of the TestStand engine. My observation has been that they always connect to the local instance of the Application manager.

Just to be clear, I want to run TestStand on computer A, then create some UI controls (sequence view file manager, sequence view, some combo boxes, etc) on computer B, and have them connect to the engine on computer A.

I noticed that you can set the sequence file context on the SequenceFileViewMgr object, but not the applicaiton manager context (the property is read only). When I try to set the ISequenceFileViewMgr::SequenceFile property to a remote inst
ance of a sequence file object, the control doesn't seem to connect. I can only connect to sequence file objects that have been created locally through the application manager.

Thanks,

Aaron Stibich

[James_Grey]

The controls don't support that scenario, and if they did, I would expect that the resulting tracing performance would be unacceptable. It is an interesting idea though and it would be nice to try it without tracing to see if it was fast and robust enough to be useful. I'd need to investigate whether the controls use any non-remotable internal APIs before attempting to enable this. I'll add this idea to our suggestion list.

I don't know if it is appropriate for your use case, but if you can instead connect to the remote machine via RemoteDesktop, you should be able to remotely run an OI application with decent performance.