TestStand Improvement Whishes

[krs.]

1) Get rid of the "Locals." and "Parameters." prefix from variables lookupstrings in Teststand. Since 90% of the commonly used variables in Teststand are either under "Locals" or "Parameters", it will save a lot of time getting rid of them, and in addition the expressions will get much shorter and clearer.

I think it can be done by keeping the existing parameters and locals tabs in seq editor, but in the lookup strings which have no special keyword in front (eg. runstate, globals) should be considered either locals, either parameters. (locals and parameters can have unique names for eg.)

2) The autocomplete feature in the expresion browser, would be of a greater help if it would work like the "Start menu" in Windows, rather then entering a
"." and then try to pick the nest entry. This will be very helpfull for nested properties.

Thank you.
krs

[Scott_Richardson]

Krs -
Thank you for the suggestions.

[Adam B.]

KRS,

I will join Scott in thanking you for your suggestions. We definitely take customer suggestions very seriously and consider them when deciding which features are included in future releases of the product. However, we do have a process for submitting requests that streamline the suggestions directly to someone in our R&D department. If you go to www.ni.com/contact, the bottom left option is for product feedback. This will take you through a few pages that ensure that we have all the information necessary to understand your suggestion and the reasoning behind. Again, we greatly appreciate ideas on how to make our products better, but I would suggest using this process to ensure that your suggestions go directly to the correct people. Thanks and have a great day.

Adam B.
Applications Engineer
National Instruments