Is there anyway to write sequence file without opening NI teststand 4.2 ?

[krishna_ak]

Hi Friends,

        I would like to know is there any way to write a sequence file without using NI Teststand 4.2 ?

       For Example, I will write few steps in a textpad or notepad in a format that teststand understand and save as .seq file, then I want to open that file file using NI Teststand and execute.

Thanks,

Krishna

[~jiggawax~]

TestStand files are stored in binary format so I doubt that's possible.

What you would have to do is create your own code that read in a text file and then called in to the engine through the API to create the sequence.  It would be painful but doable.

Regards,

[~jiggawax~]

Sorry,

You could also do them as XML files.  To see what one looks like go to Edit>>Sequence File Properties...  Then change the File Format to XML.  Save the file and see what it looks like. If you created your text file like that it woud work..

🙂

[RayFarmer]

Hi,

take a look at the Sequence Builder example in the TestStand/Examples folder

[PhillipBrooks]

You can use the TestStand 3.0 INI file format to store your sequence.

You can use (carefully) the LabVIEW configuration file functions to modify the seq file in the TestStand 3.0 format (again, carefully!)

We have many stand-alone tools that parse our sequence files (make no changes) and we still use the INI format to this day with TestStand 4.1.1

[krishna_ak]

HI  Phillip,

        It's sound gr8 that we can write sequence files in ini format.

       Could you please attached with an example ?

Thanks

Krishna

Ak Aerotek Software Center pvt Ltd

Bangalore

[dug9000]

If you are starting from scratch I'd recommend the xml file format over the ini format because it is more human readable.

-Doug

[RayFarmer]

You can of course change your setting so that TestStand SeqEditor saves the SequenceFiles in INI format. Check out the TestStand Help

[j_dodek]

Hi Krishna,

I am interrested in your idea behind why creating without Editor.

I if this would be my task would do it by using the TS-API.

Regards

Juergen

[RayFarmer]

Hi,

You could try the route of using the Sequence File Translator

http://zone.ni.com/reference/en-XX/help/370052H-01/TOC34.htm