TestStand output to log file?

[rw1dale]

Is there a way to open, write to, and close a log file in TestStand?  I want to be able to name the file, open it, write strings that I create in TestStand, and close the file?  Simple text debug statements such as "Got to test 1", or "First audio reading = 2.548 MV rms".  Surely someone has done this already!

[~jiggawax~]

I see a couple options here, unless I'm missing something obvious. 

1- Use the activex steps to call into the activex api of a text editor and do it that way.

OR

2- Use create code modules that do it and call those steps from TestStand.  I know that LabVIEW and CVI both have file writing capabilities to any txt file. 

You can read in a file using the Property Loader Step.  You can't write using it though. 

Check out this post: http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=330&message.id=15680

It's using the call exe commant and writing a test file from the command line.  Interesting!!!!  The only problem here is I don't know how to read from the file using this method.  If you need to read then this might be hard.

Hope this helps,

[icastillejos]

Hola Rwdale,

I was trying to do exactly the same and I found a CVI library that comes with TS that  has a method to save files, I think they use it to save the documentation files of the sequence files. Hope it helps (it works on my machine)

[~jiggawax~]

Good Call!  That dll is actually used for the sequence file documentation.  It's a Tool that gets invoked from the Tools>>Sequence File Documentation option.  In order to write txt files it looks like they made a dll that does all the hard work for you rwdale.

Great Find!!

[rw1dale]

Looks promising, I'll give it a try.  Thanks for your help.