Message popup automatically cleared from display upon a event occurs

[SK2182]

Hi,

I am writing an Test sequence where-in, I want to automatically clear the Message Popup from display upon occurrence of an event notification, so that the execution does not stop and please do note - I don't want to use the Timeout option available for the Message popup.

Scenario:

I have two threads running in parallel, where-in on one thread logic processing takes place and on the other thread Message popup along with other processing is in place.

I want to automatically clear the first Message pop upon notification of Button 1 pressed and display another Message pop up - Press Button 2. So that the execution does not stop and it completes without any manual intervention.

Note: Create, Wait step of the Notification is taken care.

Please suggest.

 Thread 1                                                                 Thread 2

Logic processing

Trigger Thread 2                                                   .........

.......                                                                      Display Message popup - Press Button 1

.......                                                                      Display Message popup - Press Button 2

Set Notification Button 1 pressed                         ..........

.......                                                                       ..........

.......

Set Notification Button 2 pressed

Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

[~jiggawax~]

I'm pretty sure you can't do that with the out-of-the box message popup in TestStand.  Once it enters the post-step substep (which is what displays the dialog) you are pretty much set with your step properties and how the message box behaves.

A couple options:

1- create your own message dialog in whichever language you choose.  Have it poll a variable and set the variable from the other thread.

2- edit the message popup code.  You have the source code. <TestStand>\Components\StepTypes\MsgBox

Regards,

[James_Grey]

If you wanted to, you could put the message box step in a sub-sequence that you invoke in a new execution. You could then use the execution reference to terminate the execution and message box at will.