How do you use the status column to show progress of a step in an OI?

[Bazza]

Hi everyone,

I was just doing a little browsing and noticed the picture at the top of the http://www.ni.com/teststand/ web page.  It shows a progress bar in the status column of a step being executed.

I have several applications where this would be a very useful addition.  I use the progress bar at the bottom of the OI and sequence editor regularly, but would very much like to show progress of an individual step in the status column.  It would be particularly useful where you turn the tracing off into a sequence but want to see that progress is being made through the steps within it...

Anyone know how to do this?  I have been unsuccessful in trying to find examples....

Cheers,

Barry

[James_Grey]

That image is of either a user written control or of an "artist's conception" of an OI.  The SequenceView control doesn't have that feature, although it doesn't seem like a bad idea.  The best you could do with a SequenceView status column would probably be to show the percent completion with text. You can specify the color of the text and its background, but those colors apply to the whole "cell".

[Bazza]

Thanks for your reply James.  Youre right though - it does seem like a good idea.

That picture is seriously misleading.....

Maybe its something ill explore further if I get time.

Barry

[RayFarmer]

artist impression!!!!

[RyanWright]

James,

I believe your answer to Bazza's question also applies to my situation, but I wasn't sure so I thought I would ask.  I am working on a custom TestStand operator interface in LabVIEW using the UI controls.  I would like it to behave as closely as possible to the old Test Executive.  Specifically, I would like the operator to be able to see the contents of the sequence file, interact with them, and see the execution results all in the same view.  Is that possible?  In other words, can I display and interact with a sequence file (display the sequence steps, run selected steps, loop selected steps, etc.) and display the sequence's execution results (including tracing) in the same SequenceView control or do I have to use 2 of them?

Thanks,

Ryan Wright

[James_Grey]

You could probably swap the connection to a single SequenceView between a SequenceFileViewMgr and an ExecutionViewMgr when executions start and end. However, this might lead to unwanted consequences such as that once the execution ends, your execution view step statuses would disappear because you are switching back to display the file. The example full UIs try to have it both ways by using using the same screen real estate for the file and the execution while still preserving separate views of each that you can switch between with the listbar.