Termination as precondition to a step

[Rafi2003]

Hi,

I would like to perform some steps in the Cleanup section only when the the program is Terminated.

Is there a variable in the context that indicates this status?

Thanks

Rafi

[RayFarmer]

Hi,

You could try performing TS API call Execution.GetStates(run_state, term_state), this returns two parameters. The second will equal 2 if you are terminating.

Or you could look at the Status in the Locals.ResultList[x]. If its the first thing you do in the cleanup, then it will be that last recorded value in ResultList.

Hope this helps

Regards

Ray Farmer

[Norbert_B]

[Edit] Misread question and gave incorrect answer......

Message Edited by Norbert B on 06-17-2008 09:22 AM

[Rafi2003]

Dear Ray,

Your knowledge has always been overwhelming to me...

1.  I was successful in the first option (active x with Execution.GetStates).   I was quite happy to succeed with that as I've never used an API function before.  Are there more examples of using API functions for various tasks?

2.  The second part gave me 'Done' for status and not Terminate.  I used as the first step in the cleanup a popup message and in the body of the message I wrote  'Locals.ResutlList[0].Status.

Was I supposed to see "Terminate" instead of Done?

What is the meaning of [0]?

In which cases there is more than [0] in the arry?

Thanks

Rafi

[Rafi2003]

Hi again,

It seems that the Termination brings back the value 3 and not 2 as you indicated.

Is this correct or I'm not looking at the right place?

Thanks

Rafi

[RayFarmer]

Hi Rafi,

The reason you are seeing the value 3 is because you must be running interactivily. In the Help for GetStates give the different values for termination states.

So you would need to look for either 2 or 3.

Regards

Ray

[RayFarmer]

Hi Rafi,

"Your knowledge has always been overwhelming to me..." it's nothing special, just been doing a long time

[0] means the first element of an 1D array.

Was I supposed to see "Terminate" instead of Done? If you are seeing done then you have not got the correct element of the ResultList array.

If you have terminated a step in the Main, which was the 4th recorded step and you had not recorded steps in the Setup,  then if the first step in the Cleanup, you would have to check ResultsList[3] to see the Status of Terminated.

Hope this helps.