Loading TestStand Engine reference into the runnable objects table

[Mark Krueger (Medrad)]

Has anyone ever used the Running Objects Table (ROT) to store the TestStand execution reference so other running programs have access to it?

I have a test sequence that instantiates an ActiveX Exe script engine, then calls the script engine using the activeX adapter steps to run script files.  I need to access TestStand context variables from inside one of these scripts, but I can only pass (space delimited) string parameters to the scripts, (I didn't write the interface...)  so I don't believe I can pass ThisContext directly.

I'd really appreciate a reply from anyone who has experience storing TestStand references in the ROT (& knows whether this would work), or using any other method of making the TestStand reference available to another running program.

I don't really understand how the ROT works, but I found some DLL calls that register and unregister references in it.  I've stumbled about with trying it, but don't really understand what I'm doing.

thanks - Mark